the most the young man is probably looking at is involuntary manslaughter as i think any prosecutor would have a hard time convincing a jury that the fast food worker had "intent" to kill the patron, or that he could have known that simply punching the man in the face could be reasonably expected to result in death.
the sentencing varies in manslaughter cases depending on the details of the case, but i should expect the young man to probably receive a 10 year sentence.
EDIT: found it. it is indicated that the old man tried to hit the worker.
Interesting... if his attorney could justify self defense with the argument being that there is no way the young man could have known the old man would die as a result of that defense then the kid might get away with this
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