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A lawyer - who has remained anonymous - has circulated a legal opinion making the case that Corporal Kareem Martinez - who killed Laddie Gillett - should be charged for murder.
The opinion is titled, "Laddie Gillett - Specific Intention to Kill" - and it cites legal precendee to argue that there is enough evidence ti charge the corporal for the murder of the teenager.
As is well known, the Corporal was charged for manslaughter and is out on bail.
Not surprisingly, the commissioner was not impressed with the legal opinion by one of his colleagues. He says that person must not have ever gone to law school:
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I have seen that document indeed and let me say, as a lawyer, I don't believe that document was written by one of my colleagues. If it is, then that colleague needs to go back to law school. It is not even as good as what paralegal would do. Maybe the person is a former prosecutor, but is not an attorney, because you'd know that we do have lay prosecutors who have paralegal and prosecuting in our magistrate's courts. That's the farthest I would say that person qualification is, a paralegal, it cannot be an attorney."
Reporter
"If you fire a shot at someone less than fifty feet away, pointing at them and not shooting it a warning shot style, do you not have intent to kill?"
Chester Williams
"It depends on where you aim. If you aim for a person head and you catch that person in the head, one would say that the probability of shooting someone in the head, and that person survives is very slim. So if it can be proven that he shot the person in the head then it can be said that there was a clear intent to kill. If you could have said that he intentionally shot the person in the left chest region, then can say intent to kill or if a person fires multiple shot, but to fire one shot, a police officer on duty firing one shot at a person who may be running, it is difficult to prove an intent to kill. I'm not saying that it is not possible, but it is difficult to prove that."
