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Wonder Why

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3. No, Sean, you didn't "make mistakes that night. A mistake would have occurred if someone suddenly
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 01:45 PM
Jan 29

appeared and you thought it was the perp so you fired before realizing it was the homeowner.


“I made a lot of mistakes that night.


That wasn't a mistake. That was the action of a self-entitled brute who thought he was allowed to throw his weight around because it was a female Black. You knew she wasn't a danger to you. You knew what you were doing.

You are sorry - a sorry excuse for a human being. You took the life of an innocent human for no reason and you only got 20 years.

His attorney had asked for a sentence of six years, noting that Grayson has late stage colon cancer that has spread to his liver and lungs.


She is dead and he willfully did it. If he has cancer, then I am sorry to have him suffer with that disease. But he got away with 20 years instead of life, although he may not last that long. But cancer was not a mitigating circumstance that deserved giving him a lighter sentence.

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