8 ½ Years is not enough.
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https://deadline.com/2023/10/lauren-pazienza-barbara-gustern-fatal-shoving-vocal-coach-1235526144/
Lauren Pazienza, the event planner who fatally shoved the 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach Barbara Gustern to the ground in a random 2022 attack, was officially sentenced to eight and a half years in prison Friday.
Pazienza had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in August in a plea deal for eight years in prison. The six months was added on Friday by Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge Felicia Mennin, who, according to reports, said she was unconvinced that the 28-year-old Pazienza had taken responsibility for her actions.
...Pazienza, who deliberately and randomly shoved 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach Barbara Gustern to the ground on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2022 causing the elderly woman’s death, changed her plea from not guilty to guilty and will be sentenced to eight years in state prison.
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I remember that story. Thanks for the follow up. The motive didn't seem more complicated than a random person having a random bad day, and deciding to inflict some random violence. Without the extraordinary improbable outcome, nobody would have ever heard about it.
