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Beyond disturbing!
Why isn't the charge 1st-degree murder?
This was planned and deliberate.
I see it. He was attacked, went to the hospital, was released, died several days later, it was determined that his death was related to the earlier attack.
Because of that time period between the attack and the death, it would be harder to secure a conviction on first degree murder. A second degree charge will get a guilty verdict where a first degree might not.
Would that even matter? He died within days because of this planned and deliberate attack.