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by VDC staff
A man charged in connection with a 2022 Burlington homicide has accepted a plea agreement that will send him to prison for 14 years, officials confirmed Monday. A more detailed report will be published shortly.
As reported in 2022 by Vermont First reporter Mike Donoghue, Abdiaziz ‘Drill’ Abdihkadir, now 22, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Hussein Mubarak, who was fatally shot in the head in the city’s Old North End on July 7, 2022. At the time of that incident, authorities said the shooting stemmed from a long-running personal dispute.
Under the terms of the plea deal, Abdihkadir pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and two counts of obstruction of justice. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to a 14-year sentence, which he will serve in prison.
Prosecutors had originally charged Abdihkadir with first-degree murder, reflecting the severity of the crime and the investigation that followed. The plea agreement brings a resolution to the case without taking it to a full trial.
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Typical for a Vermont first degree murder case to get a 14 year sentence through a plea agreement. Very little confidence that a woke Chittenden County jury would unanimously find him guilty with his ample “victimhood credentials”. He will be walking free before we know it and know that his way of dealing with “personal disputes” will draw limited consequences.
many Vermont murder cases get pled to manslaughter; Vermont criminal sentences are required to have a minimum and a maximum; guessing the 14 years is the maximum; good lawyering on someone’s part
Yup, likely good lawyering at the taxpayers’ expense, and inept prosecution also at the taxpayers’ expense. The incarceration is also at the taxpayers’ expense, but i dont mind paying for that investment in public safety.
No prosecutor named for offering this plea and no judge named for accepting it???? First degree murder? 14-years (3.5 years already served) so can likely will be on the streets in about 4-5 years too settle any other “personal disputes” in a similar manner. Or, maybe he’ll come out reformed into a fine upstanding young man . . .I’ll be watching for those pigs to come flying by.
Yes, let’s keep up expanding the “migrant” policies in VT and demanding “diversity” at all costs. Vermont certainly has been vastly improved in light of it, as obviously so many of the folks becoming arrested and incarcerated (proportionately) who weren’t born & raised here OR relocated here decades ago – have merely been just unsuccessfully trying to assimilate until they were very obviously hindered in doing so in the face of our persistent racism. Yeah, that’s it.
I’d like to know the case was pled down. Perhaps someone with more knowledge about these things can help enlighten us as to why the first-degree charge was dropped. Did the state not think it had enough evidence to convict of first-degree murder?
Seems like this is becoming more normative. I understand state’s attorneys liking to close deals, but at what point are corners cut, true retributive justice not being administered, and public safety being compromised?
Please please please…no more pleas. Our streets are not safe as it is. We are just perpetuating unsafe streets even more in 14 years time. No more pleas to please the spineless Left…please!