Timoshenko Verdict #2: Guilty on all counts

Dexter Bostic, the second of the three defendants tried for the murder of Officer Timoshenko to receive a verdict, was found guilty on all counts on Friday. He faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The jury for the third defendant, Lee Woods, is still out. Woods was charged with aggravated murder for being a part of the events that led to the shooting but was not himself believed to be a shooter; prosecutors believed that Woods was the driver of the car.

Robert Ellis, who was believed to be a shooter by the prosecution, was acquitted of the same charge because he claimed to be the driver. It makes you wonder, given the way the prosecutors charged Woods, if they should have spent more time arguing that it didn't matter if Ellis was the shooter or not for a murder charge to stand. Instead, they focused on proving that Ellis was culpable as a shooter and in failing to convince the jury of that beyond a reasonable doubt, the jury apparently didn't see fit to convince Ellis on a different standard. The Woods prosecutors,  focused specifically on proving that the driver should be found guilty of murder, paradoxically, may stand a better chance of convicting Woods.