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Prosecutors seek 25 years in prison for deadly Kansas hoax
Federal prosecutors are seeking a 25-year prison sentence for a California man who made a hoax call that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man following a dispute between online gamers.
[...] Barriss faces sentencing Friday in federal court in Wichita for making the false report resulting in a death. He has pleaded guilty to 51 charges related to fake calls and threats across the country.
The defense is seeking a 20-year prison sentence.
Sentencing is set for March 29.
Previously: Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas
Related: Gamers Use Police Hoax to Lash Out at Opponents
Swatter Just Prankster?
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Swatter Who Caused a Death in Kansas Likely Faces at Least 20 Years in Prison
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by wisnoskij on Saturday March 02 2019, @03:28PM
We need straightforward and clear laws that state what the penalty is for knowingly filing a false police report.
Because we have judgments from warnings to life in prison. And we would definitely benefit from more regularity.
As for this sentence. Who knows, our criminal justice system is built on charging people for bad luck. The guy who blindly speeds through a red light gets a different sentence to the man who blindly speeds throughout a red light while an incompetent driver happens to be at the intersection. But it makes me wonder, what sentence would this man be facing if he prank ordered pizza and the delivery man killed him? Thousands if not hundreds of thousands people call the police regularly on others people on the skimpiest of evidence. This can could of be swatted for any number of legitimate reasons by well meaning neighbors. No one would even consider charging the woman who called in a police report of a AK wielding man in downtown ?NY? for the 12 foot long foam replica of a halo sniper rifle; No matter how many people died at a result of that. So how is it suddenly reckless endangerment when the reasoning changes from incompetence to incompetence with malice?