Michael Dunn gets life without parole, first degree murder.

[DanTex]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a teenager in an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenience store was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.

The life sentence imposed by Circuit Judge Russell Healey was mandatory for 47-year-old Michael Dunn after prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty.

"Mr. Dunn, your life is effectively over," Healey said. "What is sad . is that this case exemplifies that our society seems to have lost its way."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3e1fbf26ea734bfd92a4910e4d757d7d/fla-man-gets-life-prison-loud-music-killing

[Little Star]

1. Good! That arrogant SOB!...

I'm glad the Judge told him his life is effectively over. Dunn makes me sick to my stomach. I hope he rots in Jail.
~rant over~

What the hell would make anyone think they had the right to shoot another person.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. Yes!

I hope those words, for him, cracked like a rifle shot that he will hear again and again until he dies.

[PNW_Dem]

18. Stand Your Ground Defense Failed

Don’t overlook the most important development here. This happened in Florida and he was unable to use the “Stand Your Ground” defense. This is a promising tactic used successfully by the prosecution. I think that we will see a lot more use of second-degree attempted murder. Maybe something was learned from the Trevon Martin tragedy…

[Little Star]

21. Good point.

[calimary]

27. Welcome to DU, PNW_Dem!

Glad you're here! Yeah, quite amazing that it did happen in Florida, isn't it!

"Stand Your Ground" my ass.

[Faux pas]

2. Finally!

[MineralMan]

3. Good.

[Gothmog]

4. Good

This is great news and an appropriate sentence

[Worried senior]

5. Some justice

finally, too lacking in so many of these cases.

[Raine1967]

6. Good.

I am glad he apologized, and I am glad that he is going to jail.

I liked what the judge said:

"Mr. Dunn, your life is effectively over," Healey said. "What is sad . is that this case exemplifies that our society seems to have lost its way."

[Maru Kitteh]

16. He didn't apologize

He said he "regretted" what happened and "I am mortified that I took a life whether it was a justified or not."

Only reason that bit of human garbage regrets what happens is his new lifetime wardrobe in orange. He didn't apologize. He didn't say he was sorry for killing the kid. His statement still claims it was justified. He is the top few inches of a pit toilet on a hot afternoon, and I hope he rots.

[BrotherIvan]

7. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

I hope he cries himself to sleep every night.

[MoonRiver]

8. Hooray for JUSTICE!!

Bout time we saw some!

[appleannie1]

9. They finally got one right.

[Fumesucker]

10. It is said that justice is getting what you deserve

Justice was done in this case

[LawDeeDah]

12. Good. Hope this saves other lives.

The teabaggin' gunner wild west thinking has got to be stopped.

[Logical]

13. He never called the police which shows he was not in fear of anything. nt

[SpankMe]

14. Dang good news.

Absolutely heartbreaking:

"I gave him his first kiss when he came into this world and I could never have imagined giving him his last kiss."


Absolutely infuriating and outrageous:

Dunn never called 911 after firing into the SUV, and afterward he went back to his hotel, made a drink, ordered pizza, walked his dog and went to sleep.

May this specimen of human deficit (Dunn) have a long, miserable time in prison.

[ncjustice80]

24. I think he should be left in solitary with nothing but a bedsheet and a hook on the wall.

[Major Hogwash]

15. Wow, hurray for that judge! His comment is extremely apropos.

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I can't believe that he actually killed someone over listening to music in their own car.

[calimary]

17. DAYUM. What a statement from the judge! Both sad and true.

Glad that gun-goon got what was coming to him. He MURDERED that kid. For no good reason. In cold blood. Lock him away for LIFE so he won't do that to anybody else EVER again. And I hope they took away ALL of his guns. That probably hurts him more than anything else, even moreso than a verdict or sentence like this, knowing the sense of entitlement, irrationality, paranoia, and phony victimization that this jerk embodied.

"Stand Your Ground" my ass.

[Initech]

19. One less ammosexual in the world!

May he rot.

[berni_mccoy]

20. Rest now Jordan Davis, Justice is served

[Skittles]

22. this is where gunhumping brought you, asshole

maybe worshiping the NRA is not a great idea

[ManiacJoe]

23. How did the prosecutor argue first vs second degree?

To you folks who followed the second trial....

[morningfog]

25. He was clearly guilty and justice was served in the guilty verdict,but I am never comfortable with

life without parole eligibility. He's 47 now, he'll be 72 in 25 years. No one can know now what kind of person he will be then, how he will have rehabilitated or changed. There is simply no way to know who someone will be for the rest of their life.

I hope that his time in prison is spent on first improving himself and understanding how he did what he did. And then on working to heal society and the families he so badly hurt in whatever way possible.

I really dislike the comment of the judge. No one's life is over until they die. Life goes on in prison and if we believed in rehabilitation, that is not the message we want to send.

[DefenseLawyer]

29. Well put. n/t

[aikoaiko]

26. A fitting end to his story.

[DefenseLawyer]

28. Wait, John Wayne movies never had that ending

Sorry toughguy, real life is such a drag.

[TorchTheWitch]

30. YES! n/t

[Lil Missy]

31. Very fitting outcome for that miserable jackass. n/t

[Cha]

32. Finally some Justice for the killing of our Black kids in America! Mahalo Dan Tex..

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RIP Jordan Davis

[toddwv]

33. I don't believe in the death penalty but

j/k. I still don't. Let the P.O.S. rot in prison.

[tblue37]

34. Good. nt