Who does he remind you of?!
Posted on 11/17/2015 4:49:53 PM PST by SaveFerris
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — The murder trial of a teenager charged with killing his math teacher ended early Tuesday when he told his lawyer he was "about to explode" and refused to go back into the courtroom.
Denise Regan, a lawyer for 16-year-old Philip Chism, told the Salem Superior Court judge that her client was shaking, twitching and mumbling and told her "he's about to explode and ... doesn't want to hurt anyone."
Witnesses were describing some of the blood-stained evidence in the case at the time.
The judge at first called a recess, then ended proceedings about an hour earlier than scheduled after trying unsuccessfully to speak to Chism himself. He then called for a psychological evaluation.
Chism, who had moved to Massachusetts from Clarksville, Tennessee, shortly before starting high school, has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in the October 2013 slaying of 24-year-old Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer. Chism was 14 at the time.
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I love it how they phrase it like the prisoner gets to call the shots....then again, it sounded like he does. smh
Just let him sit and relax in a room with the victim’s family.
That should help.....
Put him inside of a cage on wheels and roll him in.
Yup.
I saw a judge try to sentence a sobbing hooker once. He gave her time to compose herself and dealt with a couple of other cases. When she came back for sentencing she started crying again. He said “I was going to give you a year’s probation but now you’ve got something to cry about because that year will be spent in the county jail”.
Why is the tail wagging the dog?
Just drag his sorry butt into the courtroom.
” her client was shaking, twitching and mumbling and told her “he’s about to explode and ... doesn’t want to hurt anyone.”
That used to happen to me about every two or three years at work.
The kid has been trying to use the mental illness claim but was found competent. Trying again?
That’s my guess.
[her client was shaking, twitching and mumbling]
They could also put some duct tape over his mouth. That ought to slow down the mumbling of the rapist / murderer and he can still breath while he’s convicted.
Who does he remind you of?!
I hope he doesn’t get away with it. He seems to only “act nuts” when he has to go to court.
They can just put him in a room with a closed circuit TV. He doesn't have to be physically present.
Oh poor kid, all that microaggression and white privilege and no safe zones to run to.
Philip Chism, 16, is charged with murder, rape and robbery in the October 2013 slaying of Colleen Ritzer. The body of the 24-year-old Danvers High School teacher was found near the school. She had been raped twice and her throat had been slit.
True. But I’d rather see the little rapist / murderer handcuffed and shackled and dragged into the courtroom.
After all, he made the appointment the day he raped his teacher and murdered her.
A hundred and forty cameras in the high school captured almost his every move. Leaving the classroom. Drawing the hoodie onto his head. Entering the girl’s bathroom behind his math teacher, Colleen Ritzer.
Prosecutor Kate MacDougall told the 17 jurors in Salem Superior Court of Philip Chism’s actions, nearly minute-by-minute, on October 22, 2013. He went to Danvers High School that day with a mask, a box cutter, and a “terrible purpose.â€
There’s no telling what lies they will come up with.
Just watch. I’m sure there will be much more nonsense.
Paging Al Sharpton. Paging Jesse Jackson. Hello?
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