Sarah Stillman

And the police arrived at the scene and shot one of the kids. And another of the young people there was charged with the murder of the friend that the police had actually shot and killed. So the basic idea is to hold people accountable for knowing they went into dangerous situations. But it can lead to surprising stretches of what we think of the concept of murder as meaning.

And the police arrived at the scene and shot one of the kids. And another of the young people there was charged with the murder of the friend that the police had actually shot and killed. So the basic idea is to hold people accountable for knowing they went into dangerous situations. But it can lead to surprising stretches of what we think of the concept of murder as meaning.

Well, so I wrote about the case of a young man named Sadiq Baxter in Florida, and he had made the bad decision to go out gambling with his friend. And he and the friend had, after losing a bunch of money, gone and started to jostle the car handle doors of unlocked vehicles and take loose change. They took a drum set. They took a number of other things from these unlocked cars.

Well, so I wrote about the case of a young man named Sadiq Baxter in Florida, and he had made the bad decision to go out gambling with his friend. And he and the friend had, after losing a bunch of money, gone and started to jostle the car handle doors of unlocked vehicles and take loose change. They took a drum set. They took a number of other things from these unlocked cars.

Well, so I wrote about the case of a young man named Sadiq Baxter in Florida, and he had made the bad decision to go out gambling with his friend. And he and the friend had, after losing a bunch of money, gone and started to jostle the car handle doors of unlocked vehicles and take loose change. They took a drum set. They took a number of other things from these unlocked cars.

A neighbor called the police, and Sadiq was actually arrested and placed in handcuffs. And he thought that would be that. And it turned out his friend had been around the corner in his vehicle and had tried to flee the scene when the cops arrived.

A neighbor called the police, and Sadiq was actually arrested and placed in handcuffs. And he thought that would be that. And it turned out his friend had been around the corner in his vehicle and had tried to flee the scene when the cops arrived.

A neighbor called the police, and Sadiq was actually arrested and placed in handcuffs. And he thought that would be that. And it turned out his friend had been around the corner in his vehicle and had tried to flee the scene when the cops arrived.

And he wound up being chased in a high-speed chase by law enforcement and ultimately miles away from where Sadiq was wound up tragically hitting and killing two bicyclists. And it turned out that Sadiq then wound up being prosecuted on two counts of first-degree murder, which it's important to note in Florida carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

And he wound up being chased in a high-speed chase by law enforcement and ultimately miles away from where Sadiq was wound up tragically hitting and killing two bicyclists. And it turned out that Sadiq then wound up being prosecuted on two counts of first-degree murder, which it's important to note in Florida carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

And he wound up being chased in a high-speed chase by law enforcement and ultimately miles away from where Sadiq was wound up tragically hitting and killing two bicyclists. And it turned out that Sadiq then wound up being prosecuted on two counts of first-degree murder, which it's important to note in Florida carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

So that is ultimately what Sadiq was convicted of.

So that is ultimately what Sadiq was convicted of.

So that is ultimately what Sadiq was convicted of.

Exactly. So he really believed he was innocent of the charge of murder. He immediately accepted that he had done a wrong thing by taking from the unlocked cars. So he pled guilty on that charge, which in Florida actually did carry, I believe it was something like 25 years or something of the sort. So it was already a quite lengthy sentence there.

Exactly. So he really believed he was innocent of the charge of murder. He immediately accepted that he had done a wrong thing by taking from the unlocked cars. So he pled guilty on that charge, which in Florida actually did carry, I believe it was something like 25 years or something of the sort. So it was already a quite lengthy sentence there.

Exactly. So he really believed he was innocent of the charge of murder. He immediately accepted that he had done a wrong thing by taking from the unlocked cars. So he pled guilty on that charge, which in Florida actually did carry, I believe it was something like 25 years or something of the sort. So it was already a quite lengthy sentence there.

And he thought, OK, I'll take the other part of this, the murder part, to trial. But it turned out he didn't realize the way felony murder works. It actually meant that the judge basically said, my hands are tied. Like, you, you know, pled to this felony. And that means that you are de facto guilty of first degree murder, since that's the way the felony murder doctrine works in Florida.

And he thought, OK, I'll take the other part of this, the murder part, to trial. But it turned out he didn't realize the way felony murder works. It actually meant that the judge basically said, my hands are tied. Like, you, you know, pled to this felony. And that means that you are de facto guilty of first degree murder, since that's the way the felony murder doctrine works in Florida.

And he thought, OK, I'll take the other part of this, the murder part, to trial. But it turned out he didn't realize the way felony murder works. It actually meant that the judge basically said, my hands are tied. Like, you, you know, pled to this felony. And that means that you are de facto guilty of first degree murder, since that's the way the felony murder doctrine works in Florida.