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Pool/ Getty Images It only took the jury six hours over two days to seek out 32-year-old Eric R. Holder, Jr. guilty of first-degree murder within the 2019 shooting of Nipsey Hussle. A jury in Los Angeles County also found him guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter for the gunfire that hit other people on the scene. Through the trial, his lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Aaron Jansen, admitted that Holder shot Hussle, 33, whose real name was Ermias Asghedom, but argued for a lesser verdict of voluntary manslaughter. In an email to the Associated Press, Jansen said he was “deeply disenchanted” in the decision, adding, “It was at all times going to be tough given the high profile circumstances surrounding the case.” While...