Here's the pdf of the court opinion.
It looks like it boiled down to citing past court cases since the law itself is pretty vague. Noor's team argued and the court agreed that purposeful action toward one person does not constitute a depraved mind.
In sum, our precedent confirms that Noor is correct in arguing that a person does not commit depraved-mind murder when the person’s actions are directed at a particular
victim. The particular-person exclusion is simply another way of saying that the mental
state for depraved-mind murder is one of general malice.
See Coleman, 957 N.W.2d at.
78–79 (citing Weltz, 193 N.W. at 42–43); Lowe, 68 N.W. at 1095; Darry, 10 N.Y. at 156
(Denio, J.). Under our precedent, general malice refers to conduct evincing indifference to
human life in general and, as we recently said in Coleman, does not refer to indifference
“directed at the person slain.” 957 N.W.2d at 78–79.
We reaffirm our precedent today and confirm that the mental state required for
depraved-mind murder cannot exist when the defendant’s actions are directed with
particularity at the person who is killed.
Evidently all of this confirmed a higher level charge (second degree felony murder), but the prosecution did not pursue that. They went for second degree intentional murder, but the jury decided not guilty for that.
What the hell is wrong with the judicial system that they just said, "Meh, I guess we'll let this guy off on a technicality."
I hate to say it, but there's more to this than just race. What it shows is that a black cop will never, ever serve their full time for murder, even of a foreign resident (thus causing even more international outcry, at least in theory), and that the state, plus its apparatuses, will thrown itself into conniptions to ensure that NEVER occurs.
Even if we all know he fucking murdered her in cold blood...
They know that, too, and they've just proved that they don't give a single fuck. :-(
Here's the pdf of the court opinion.
It looks like it boiled down to citing past court cases since the law itself is pretty vague. Noor's team argued and the court agreed that purposeful action toward one person does not constitute a depraved mind.
Evidently all of this confirmed a higher level charge (second degree felony murder), but the prosecution did not pursue that. They went for second degree intentional murder, but the jury decided not guilty for that.
Jesus that's utterly, utterly fucked...
What the hell is wrong with the judicial system that they just said, "Meh, I guess we'll let this guy off on a technicality."
I hate to say it, but there's more to this than just race. What it shows is that a black cop will never, ever serve their full time for murder, even of a foreign resident (thus causing even more international outcry, at least in theory), and that the state, plus its apparatuses, will thrown itself into conniptions to ensure that NEVER occurs.
Even if we all know he fucking murdered her in cold blood...
They know that, too, and they've just proved that they don't give a single fuck. :-(