An Oklahoma man who was doing target practice in his backyard on Christmas is believed to have shot and killed an elderly woman a few blocks from his home, authorities said.
Cody Wayne Adams, 33, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in connection with the deadly shooting, court filings show.
The victim was on a covered front porch with family members at a residence in Comanche when she was shot Thursday afternoon, according to the probable cause affidavit. She was holding a baby in her left arm while seated on a love seat when she was struck in her right upper arm, according to the affidavit. The bullet then entered her chest cavity, it said.
You right, but consider this. You can’t get plea deals without inflated charges. The pre-meditation could be that “he went into the house”. He had the game on. He didn’t NEED to be inside, he chose to go inside. If he was carrying a gun while he went inside AND anticipated an altercation, then you can make the argument, however poorly cobbled together, that he had thought this shit through.
“But, there’s no plea deal for a man who died by suicide!” You’re right. But it’s a nice way to slide some precedent through because who is going to defend this asshole? Nobody.
Now, the next time someone does something similar and lives, you got that sweet murder 1 baybeee! They went into somewhere they didn’t need to be, knowing that it would provoke an altercation, and they were carrying their firearm with intent to use it when the situation escalated (State of Oklahoma v. Cody Wayne Adams). Hell, this citation can be scraped by some language learning model and appear down the road to support this scenario when an overworked intern slaps together a brief for an attorney who is focused on numbers.
It doesn’t have to be a good argument. It just has to be AN argument.