CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania on Morning News talked about the frustration he expressed earlier after lack of cooperation from a murder victims’ friend resulted Tuesday in a plea deal downgraded a 2nd-degree murder charge to a manslaughter conviction. Platania says Reginald Eugene Lindsay Jr. pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and now faces 10 years in prison, when a murder conviction in the shooting death of Danny O’Brien Hall last October could have meant life in prison. He says the police department did an excellent job in the investigation, but the effectiveness was limited by the fact they know 8-to-12 people saw what happened that night into the early morning and would not cooperate. He says not only can police not force someone to cooperate, the most effective witness before a jury is one who cooperates voluntarily because it’s the right thing to do.