“This case is about shame, shame in Korean culture,” Kohler said. “This isn’t Mr. Cho’s plan to kill Mr. Lee, it’s Mr. Lee’s plan,” deputy public defender Robert Kohler said. Simmons argued that Cho’s claim that he didn’t mean to kill Lee until the very last minute was a lie. Scott Simmons said Cho should be found guilty of first-degree murder no matter whether Lee had asked him to kill him. A man who shot his friend of more than three decades in the back of his head in an industrial area of east Anaheim is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, not murder, an Orange County jury found Thursday.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 21, 2016 23:52 UTC