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There is a tonne of context missing from that story that make it impossible to say whether this was justified and what sort of punishment, if any, should be handed down.

Did the first guy mean to kill the second or was this just something where he landed a punch in a bad spot or the guy smacked his head after falling? Did the guy have a chance to get away after recovering his wallet or did the fight continue to the end?

All that article says is that there was a robbery, followed by a fight and the robber died. More details required.

Monopoman posted...

If someone steals your credit card and charges on it in 99% of cases its pretty easy to get the charges removed. So the only way he would steal 1000s and get away with it is if you are dumb enough to carry around 1000's of dollars in cash, I guess if you also keep your pin number with your bank card he could withdraw some cash and that might not be recoverable

Banks and credit card companies are required to refund any cash from your account that was withdrawn/spent fraudulently (yes, even if they use your debit card to withdraw cash). All the banks that I'm familiar with will also set a limit on how much cash you can withdraw via debit card in a day to prevent that exact thing from happening.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Juries can choose to say he is guilty but shouldn't be punished anyway.

No, juries cannot say this. If a jury returns a verdict of guilty, the sentence range is set based on the crime(s) that the accused was convicted of; the jury cannot arbitrarily pick a number that is outside that range (including zero).

If the jury believes the many should not be punished, their only option is to return a verdict of not guilty, even if they believe he is guilty (known as "Jury Nullification").
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