Koanbred, I like you, I like that you stand up for the community and I think that's probably why I'm still posting on this thread instead of just saying "fuck it" as was my intention in an earlier post. Yes, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, hell even Timothy Mcveigh was, but we all know it as fact that she commited the crime. Yes, we all want her to have a fair trial. What I feel needs to be determined is the level of punishment for said crime which does still require more facts which the police through their investigation will hopefully deliver. Someone suggested a degree of Manslaughter might be what she recieves and I think thats acceptable, but if it's found that this crime was premeditated and not "in the heat of the moment", well then 1st-3rd degree murder sounds about right.

You keep trying to make this discussion about oppressed groups and what not but it wasn't an oppressed group of people that commited this crime, it was Asia, which is why she alone turned herself in.