GHISLAINE MAXWELL AND KIM PORTER TRIAL: BOTH WOMEN WILL BE CONVICTED.

ICHEOKU says both women did what they are accused of and charged with, and for which the jury in both cases are now deliberating their fate. The outcome in both cases is, to a logical assessment, certain; and both women will be convicted of their respective crimes, with the only exception being in what degree. This is where intent will play a huge role in either reducing or increasing the penalty each woman will be exposed to following their assured conviction. 

While Ghislaine Maxwell will get the maximum allowed penalty because she intended to achieve the outcome which resulted, playing the Lolita Madam and procuring young girls for sexual exploitation and gratification of Jeffrey Epson and his fellow revelers' the  former Minnesota police officer Kim Porter did not intend the outcome which resulted as she did not set out on that fateful day on training a newbie police officer, intending to shoot and kill the deceased. It was an accident and although otherwise avoidable, especially for an experienced police officer like her with over twenty years experience, stuff does sometimes happen. 

However, police is a stressful job and regardless of all their training, they are still human beings and we are not infallible. We make mistakes and we do cause and get involved in accidents. It happened in the heat of the moment and accompanying real time video of the incident aids her case very much. She meant to only taser the victim but mistook her gun for her taser and her reaction immediately following the discharging of the weapon couldn't have been a staged act, because it happened while the stress of the incident was still going on. 

But since death resulted, she will still be held responsible for causing it, hence the lower end of culpability, most likely manslaughter, to whatever degree applicable in Minnesota. She will do some time in the big house but for how long, ICHEOKU cannot definitively say. Also there was no gun found on the victim which could have caused a case of self defense to come to her rescue as being the only time killing of another person is ever justified and excused. 

It is sad that Daunte Wright acted a fool by resisting an arrest and it is also sad that Officer Kim Porter acted like a freshly minted rookie by mistaking her normal service gun for her normal service taser. It was carelessness on her part, bordering on negligence and recklessness; and it coming from a very experienced police officer like her will weigh heavily against her in the jury deliberation. But whatever weight it might exert, it cannot outweigh her lack of intent and she will get a light sentence. 

As for the spoiled English brat heiress of the Maxwell publishing family, she will get the maximum allowable sentence and will likely die in prison. She is as guilty as sin; and the jury will not waste much time in deliberating her case. She is the living Jeffrey Epson and whatever sentence the coward avoided by taking his life will now, by necessary implication, be transferred to his enabler and co-participant Ghislaine Maxwell. 

ICHEOKU says it is a safe bet to make that decisions in both cases will not survive Christmas and they will likely come down by Thursday December 23rd. The jury will like to be free so that they can go home to be with their families and spend the holiday together for Christmas. This imperative will persuade their speedy deliberations, and for such clear cut cases, it will make it much easier. The jury watch continues and hopefully they will also get it right like the jury in Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases.