MSNBC came under fire when an article by legal analyst Danny Cevallos had a headline that could be taken as sympathetic towards Laken Riley's murderer.

You can tell by the sub-headline that the article would explain why the judge found illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, guilty of murdering Augusta University student Laken Riley.

Cevallos wrote:

Riley's murder became a political rallying cry at this summer's Republican National Convention because Ibarra entered the country illegally in 2022. But for all the political controversy, the outcome of this trial was never in doubt.

The verdict was going to be guilty.

The sentence was going to be life without parole.

For the defense, this was a hopeless case. The defense did the best it could with bad facts. It almost surely knew it was going to lose. That's probably why it requested a bench (judge-only) trial instead of a jury trial.

However, it's MSNBC. You cannot blame people for showing disgust towards the headline.