Chrystul Kizer Got 11 Years in Prison for Killing Her Abuser. This Is Justice?
Chrystul Kizer Got 11 Years in Prison for Killing Her Abuser. This Is Justice?
Opinion | Chrystul Kizer Got 11 Years in Prison for Killing Her Abuser. This Is Justice?
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What a shit article, it literally skips the most important part and makes it seem like it was self-defense when it was planned. What happened is grossly misrepresented.
This is from https://somethingsbrewingcafe.ca/linkpost/460154/ :
He deserved it and it's sketchy as hell they let him go when they busted him with home made kiddie porn. Regardless, it's illegal to take matters into your own hands.
The fuck!?!
Ummm yea this girl deserves a pay day for doing their job for them not punishment.
The article is about justice, not “legality.” The question is about the size of the gap (or in this case the gaping chasm) between what is legal in our society and what is moral.
Any rational agent in this woman’s circumstances should do what she did. I understand that doing the right thing is often illegal, which makes some people uncomfortable, but you know maybe that’s why the gap between justice and legality is so vast. That’s why our Supreme Court is a joke.
I think that's really the crux of the issue. She didn't report him to the police but an other girl did and there was an ongoing investigation which she probably would of cemented if she came forward. Instead she resorted to what essentially is revenge killing and went out of her way to do it
I understand situation when taking things into your own hands is acceptable, like in self defense or when the law has really failed you and there isn't any other option, but I don't think this was one of those situations.
There is nothing moral about an ordinary citizen handing out a death sentence, without even trying to get help. Society has systems in place to dispense justice and I don't even think a death sentence is moral in those cases. Not to mention this man was most likely going to prison, had a mountain of evidence against him and had been charged 12 days prior to the shooting.
She set fire to his house after killing him, putting neighbors and firefighter's lives at risk.
When the law and authorities fail to give you Justice, you go ahead and get it yourself. Just don't get caught.
People don't get let go with child porn. That's a hard claim to swallow.
People are let go when they fully rape children, let alone for child porn, what are you even talking about?
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/crime/former-rpd-officer-will-be-sentenced-for-raping-an-underage-child/
https://reason.com/2024/06/12/40-percent-of-police-officers-convicted-of-child-sex-abuse-dont-get-prison-time-investigation-finds/
...what?
No you're just running with the prosecution's theory of the case.
The article gives her account, which was denied to her in court as a defense.
She first said another women shot him and she didn't know him, then she said she didn't remember, then finally the account you mentioned.
It was also a gun that she brought to his house, it's hard to pretend it was just a lucky coincidence.
That's not the important part. A jury can ignore all that. The law allows them to look at how she was victimized, and determine that her response was justified in light of the violence committed against her.
The important part didn't happen when she killed him in 2018. The important part happened in May, 2024. From wiki:
It's pretty hard for a jury to acquit her when she enters a "guilty" plea.
She pled guilty because she was denied a self defense argument. At which point they're left with her admitting to shooting him with no legal reason.