Unjust Sentencing Requires Attention
Jennifer Mee Sentence is over the top As a nineteen year old Florida woman Jennifer Mee arranged a date with a young man she contacted on Facebook; but rather than have romance on her mind her motive was robbery. With the assistance of her two male friends her would-be date was mugged and it was during this process that one of Jennifer's friends fatally shot the young man. Under Florida law, all participants in a fatal robbery are equally guilty of murder whether they were responsible for the death or not. The trio were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. In every case of murder there are aggravating and mitigating circumstances. The most mitigating circumstance is that Jennifer never intended to shoot the victim and nothing came out of the trial suggesting otherwise. The second mitigating factor is that Jennifer did not pull the trigger. It has to be asked, "Who is responsible for the discharge of a firearm?" I think the one who is in ...