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Kevin Monahan, 65, shot 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis after a car she was riding in with friends made a wrong turn on his property

A man was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday for fatally shooting a young woman when the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove up his rural driveway in upstate New York.

A jury found Kevin Monahan, 66, guilty of second-degree murder for shooting 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis on a Saturday night last April after she and her friends pulled into his long, curving driveway near the Vermont border while they were trying to find another house.

The group’s caravan of two cars and a motorcycle began leaving once they realized their mistake. Authorities said Monahan came out to his porch and fired twice from his shotgun, with the second shot hitting Gillis in the neck as she sat in the front passenger seat of an SUV driven by her boyfriend.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 128 points 10 months ago
[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Well that's one less that can't vote for him.

[-] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 10 months ago

Which itself is kinda fucked up but that's a separate issue.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Still don't get how that doesn't fall under taxation without representation

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 20 points 10 months ago

"No taxation without representation" is just a catchy slogan, not a legal principle. It has the same legal standing as "if the glove don't fit you must acquit."

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

taxation without representation

That's a Declaration of Independence item, not US Constitution.

It was in reference to Britain passing the Stamp Act (and other things) charging fees on people living in what is today the United States to prop up the treasury of Britain.

[-] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

What usually gets left out of the story is that the taxes were imposed in part to pay for the French and Indian War, which the colonists started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The idea being that, felons are morally reprehensible people, and therefore cannot be trusted to vote in a "civic" manner.

The reality is corporations- and the rich people that control them- are by far the more morally bankrupt group.

not that I agree with that, per se. (though I would say it's true of people like Bill Hwang of Archegos Capital, or Elizebeth Holmes of Theranos... Or the Koch brothers... or Trump. but the average criminal? far from it.)

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

100%. Disenfranchisement is absolutely encouragement to selectively legislate and enforce. All these rural areas housing federal prisons would positively loose their shit if felons could vote. Because to them that completely defeats the point of the federal prisons.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I’m sure somehow his ballot will be counted.

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Trump wasn't going to win New York anyways.

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