OldBusaGuy
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Last I heard, juries don't dish out sentences. That's the judges job. All juries do is render verdicts for the charges that the defendant has been charged with. At least this is how I see it reported.If it goes to jury trial, and a jury of his peers says he gets a light sentence (I have little doubt he killed the guy), then it would be hard to argue how the citizens feel about it. Many many Americans have lost loved ones to a broken healthcare system. And the dead CEO runs one of the biggest perpetrators of it.
I was in a waiting room of an infectious disease office yesterday. About 15 people waiting. This topic came up. Not one person that participated in the convo had one good word to say about the company he represented. None came out in defense of the killing, but every person that spoke had a story of loss at the hands of UHC.
So in court if UHC can be shown to be responsible for many lives lost or severely diminished, this kid can garner some amount of sympathy from a jury.
It's sort of like if a citizen had murdered Jeffrey Dahmer, what jury would want to send them away for doing it.