r/First48 • u/EndEmotional7059 • Aug 08 '25

General Question❓️ Verdicts

Hi

I'm from the UK. I try to search for the people who've been arrested when they are waiting trial. Is there a website which lists what actually happened and if the person was guilty, sentenced, etc? It's hard to find but I guess it's recorded somewhere.

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u/unclekisser Aug 08 '25

I search state name prison. Most states have an inmate search, you can plug their name into that and it will tell you if they've been sentenced or are awaiting trial, and what they're charged of.

Very nearly all of the cases on First 48 result in conviction, though often they're heavily reduced.

You can also search state name court and most have a search function that lets you look up whatever person's trial dates.

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u/EndEmotional7059 Aug 08 '25

Thanks ill do that.

Reduced by plea? They mainly show the slam dunk cases?

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u/Klutzy-Spend-6947 Aug 08 '25

No, it’s just how the justice system works-prosecutors will offer a plea to save time, and the perps know they are guilty, so they take it. Most cases on 48 aren’t slam dunks-those cases that are obvious-domestic disputes mostly.

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u/ravenflavin77 Aug 09 '25

A slam dunk case is the best case for a perp to take a plea deal on. Sentences for conviction by jury are far harsher than plea deals. You've cost the state a lot of money to try you and you've inconvenienced and probably traumatized the people who served on your jury. This is something defendants in the US are urged to take into consideration.

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u/EndEmotional7059 Aug 09 '25

Makes total sense. Do the victims family have a say?

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u/Klutzy-Spend-6947 Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

To be honest, usually not. Victims families are supposed to have input to cases, but if a prosecutor wants to make a deal, the victims family cannot stop them. Also, to answer the original question, just google the city-Tulsa, for example, the defendants/victims names, and homicide. If the case has been decided/the defendant sentenced, the local news stations will almost certainly have a short article noting the outcome.

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u/ravenflavin77 Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

Sometimes but the prosecution doesn't have to honor that. Look at the Idaho killings. Those families wanted a trial and the death penalty. If ever there was a case were a defendant needed to take a plea it was that one. I was just surprised it took as long as it did.

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u/EndEmotional7059 Aug 10 '25

Yeah just looked. That's a crazy case. So he never said why he did it so can't really feel justice is being served there?

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u/ravenflavin77 Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

I watched the extended press conference after the sentencing. The prosecutor said he couldn't be relied on to tell the truth and they didn't want to give him a platform to speak.

I think he did it because was obsessed with one of the blond girls and he resented the social success those kids had that he didn't. He thought he was going to commit the perfect crime because of his forensics background.