GJs are generally secret, and the charges they reject are not made public. That way if a DA goes after you, and the GJ says no dice, you are not stigmatized, it simply does not exist. Knowledge of a rejected charge would actually mean a leak in the GJ, and that might be a news story by itself.
Murder is basically knowingly (intentionally) killing someone in TX. Looks like manslaughter might include the idea of spontaneously doing it. Presented to a GJ, just the DA side, it's cut and dried murder in TX. He left the scene, got a gun, came back.
I'm not arguing the veracity of the charge, I'm just saying that the idea of a jury nullifying it in a climate of so many drunk driving deaths should not be ignored.
And again, maybe they can find him guilty of lesser, included charges, I have no idea, and the 2 stories didn't list all the charges brought against him.
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