检察官提量刑建议 梁彼得无须坐牢

前华裔警官梁彼得被布碌仑检方以重罪控诉,且已被陪审团裁定有罪后,该案在23日迎来峰回路转,当天下午布碌仑地区检察官肯·汤普森(Ken Thompson)发出一份声明说,鉴于该案的事实、当事人没有犯罪前科,以及梁彼得对公众安全不会带来任何威胁,因此他认为监禁梁彼得是没有必要的。

为此,汤普森已向主审法官陈丹尼提出量刑建议,即希望判决梁彼得缓刑5年,配带电子镣铐在家监禁6个月,做社区服务500小时。汤普森还说,上述量刑建议是最好的公正,正如他之前所说,该案没有赢家,基于案件的事实与细节,我对该案的判决要求只有正义与公正。

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《检察官提量刑建议 梁彼得无须坐牢》上的2个想法

  1. STATEMENT OF ASSEMBLYMAN WILLIAM COLTON (D, WFP, 47 A.D. KINGS) ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE KINGS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY ON THE SENTENCING OF PETER LIANG

    While the Press Release issued by the Kings County District Attorney, at least does not compound the injustice done to Peter Liang by recommending jail time, nonetheless it fails to correct the injustice created by the conviction of Peter Liang for manslaughter.

    . I am pleased to see that the statement of the District Attorney contradicts the closing statement made by its prosecuting attorney in the case who told the jury that the defendant was somehow aware that a person was in the stairwell and turned and pointed his gun intentionally shooting at the victim. This gross misstatement was not based on any facts or evidence presented in the case and should have resulted in the granting of the Defense Attorney’s motion for a mistrial.
    A sentencing recommendation of five years probation, with six months of home confinement and 500 hundred hours of community service leaves Peter Liang, marked as a convicted felon.

    Never before has a defendant been convicted of manslaughter based upon such a lack of law or facts to justify such a conviction.

    The unjust conviction came about under a unique fact pattern which brought together both Peter Liang, a rookie NYC Police Officer, teamed with another rookie NYC Police officer, and Akai Gurley, a totally innocent person using the stairways because of the lack of dependability of the building elevators, in a notoriously crime ridden and dark stairway directly resulting from the failure of the NYC Housing Authority to maintain the Pink houses in a safe and habitable state.
    Since the conviction we have seen both the New York Housing Authority and the New York City Police Department scampering to correct their own internal policy failures, which bear the true cause of this tragedy. NYCHA seeks to shift blame to its workers despite evidence that the lights were out for months and not merely one half hour from the end of a workers shift. The New York Police Department seeks to blame a training officer its charges failed to adequately provide CPR training to the two rookie officers, while promising to issue a directive no longer partnering two rookie officers.
    Justice can only be achieved in this case by dismissing the conviction as not supported upon law or facts or in the alternative declaring a mistrial and overturning the conviction. Any other solution simply perpetuates the injustice and results in the continued seeking a scapegoat to distract from the failure of city agencies and city officials to meet their obligations properly.

    To avoid a repeat of tragic event, city government and its officials must do better to deliver services to protect and serve the people of New York City.

  2. Although we call it a good progress, this recommendation is still too much for whatever mistakes Peter Liang might have made.

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