MSNBC appeared to express some degree of sympathy for the murderer of Laken Riley.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien from Venezuela, was convicted on multiple counts this week for the brutal murder of the Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley.
Ibarra has since been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, along with other consecutive sentences including crimes of aggravated assault with intent to rape.
The sentence brings an end a tragic saga in which the Biden regime allowed someone with no right to be in the country to senselessly murder a beautiful young woman with her whole life ahead of her.
However, MSNBC appears discontent at the outcome of the trial, complaining that Ibarra “never stood a chance” at trial.
Look at how @MSNBC framed the conviction and sentencing of Laken Riley’s killer.
Jose Ibarra never stood a chance?
No. Laken Riley never stood a chance against this monster.
Absolutely sickening. pic.twitter.com/KAjlfNMgM3
— Adam Johnston (@ConquestTheory) November 22, 2024
The network’s legal analyst, Danny Cevallos, wrote in an article on Thursday:
Riley’s murder became a political rallying cry at this summer’s Republican National Convention because Ibarra entered the country illegally in 2022.
But for all the political controversy, the outcome of this trial was never in doubt. The verdict was going to be guilty. The sentence was going to be life without parole.
For the defense, this was a hopeless case. The defense did the best it could with bad facts. It almost surely knew it was going to lose. That’s probably why it requested a bench (judge-only) trial instead of a jury trial.
Cevallos went on to point out that the “judge cut him no breaks,” implying that doing so might have been a reasonable course of action:
Of course, in Ibarra’s case, the judge cut him no breaks — jury or no jury.
In fairness, Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard, who presided over the trial, didn’t have that much to decide.
Normally, judges have a lot of sentencing options. Criminal statutes often provide for a mandatory minimum or a statutory maximum sentence, leaving a lot in between.
What the article fails to mention is that Laken Riley never “stood a chance” at living a life of happiness and fulfillment because of the Biden regime’s refusal to close the border.
Ibarra, meanwhile, also failed to “cut [Laken Riley] a break” when he went on his murderous rampage. American taxpayers will now be forced to pay for his food and shelter for the rest of his life.
With less than two months to go until Donald Trump makes his stunning return to the White House, we can only hope and pray that this sort of needless atrocity is not allowed to ever happen again.
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