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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:43PM
I don't know what the legality of lying has to do with anything. There are a few documents which really do need to be factual, like a driver's license. A birth certificate. A death certificate. Enlistment papers. I was about to say real estate documents, but those need not be terribly factual - you can make up a maze of corporate shadows to hold the deed to some land and a building. Anything else - I've never worried about legalities. I tell them whatever I decide to tell them on the spur of the moment.
Census forms. The wife finally caught on that I fill in bullshit on the forms, so now she heads me off, and fills all that shit in, THEN tells me that she has done it already. When I did them, I might be Chinese, Latino, Russian, Native American, or Martian - and she and the kids were anything and everything. She just didn't think that was funny.