Lacrosse ugliness at U.Va.

It was a hot blooded response to less than legally adequate provocation, lack of premeditation but with an intent to kill. 2nd degree murder (this is a version of imperfect self defense or dmiminished capacity

Another definition of 2nd degree murder: infliction of such serious bodiy harm that death would be the liekly result.

 

Happens all the time.

 

Do we know that his parents are loaded and can afford the "best defense lawyers money can buy" or is it an assumption since he went to prep school and plays lacrosse? Do prep schools bring in poor kids to play sports?

 

It's not the prep school, it's the home address, Chevy Chase, MD.

Prep schools do bring in poor kids tp play sports, but its usually basketball, where in High School, 1 or 2 kids can make a huge impact. In Lax, not as much bang for the buck.

 

That and the school he chose. I know it's stereotyping, but from what I've always been told, a poor/middle class kid would feel infinitely more comfortable at an Ivy than he or she would at UVa.

 

He comes for a "prominent" and well-to-do family. Here's a descriptor of his father, George W. Huguely IV:

Huguely IV has been described as having real estate interests with a property on the Outer Banks of North Carolina as well as a $2.5 million home in Palm Beach County, Florida.

http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/04/huguely-v-lacrosse-murder-suspect-scion-of-prominent-dc-family/

 

Yeah, this story might get fairly big.

 

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt. Not so much now. Spoiled, rich and aggressive is no way to go through the prison system

 

Yes, that's stereotyping, Waylon. I agree with much of what you've been saying on this thread, but it's not at all true that UVa is an uncomfortable place for poor/middle class kids.

 

If the suspect told cops where to find the victim's laptop, is it possible he confessed?

 

Cool, I believe you. I've never been to Charlottesville. I imagine that the reputation I've heard has to do with the thought that it's an old money southern school. It just LOOKS like it was plucked from a Faulkner novel.

 

If he is a spoiled and entitled and arrogant kid, that's one thing. But his family's riches don't automatically indicate he is those things.