GUILTY
Posted on 10/05/2015 2:22:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last year, a Massachusetts teenager named Philip Chism was accused of raping and murdering his teacher, Colleen Ritzer, after being asked to stay after school to study.
Chism was just 14-years-old at the time and a freshman in high school. His murdered teacher was an agonizingly young 24.
Ritzer’s body was found in the woods, partially covered by leaves, after being torn open with a box cutter. A letter was placed next to her lifeless form.
It read “I hate you all.”
Now, after months of prepping, the trial of Philip Chism is finally getting underway. He is being tried as an adult.
His defense team, quite predictably, is going with a mental health defense.
Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, spoke to ABC about the upcoming trial:
“I would really think that youth is going to be a huge factor. Part of the argument would be that Chism couldn’t control whatever disease or defect he had,” he said.
“I assume the defense will tie it into research on adolescent brain development, in particular, adolescents have a difficult time calculating the future and having a sense of the ramifications on their future lives.”
Why not just plead not guilty? There is surveillance footage that shows Ritzer heading into a school bathroom, with Chism following her, wearing gloves and a hood. He can be seen exiting the bathroom alone 12 minutes later.
He was also found with the murder weapon, hours later, a box cutter stained with blood.
Chism even confessed to area police, but Judge David Lowy has ruled that confession inadmissible on the grounds that he did not fully understand his constitutional rights at the time.
Still, according to a transcript of the confession released by Daily Mail, Chism uttered some chilling words, claiming that he attacked her after the teacher “insulted” him:
“After she insulted me, that’s when I became the teacher,” he said.
Jury selection for the murder trial is ongoing.
He slit her throat with a box cutter because “she insulted him”
Is this one eating halal meals too?
Compared to the crime, it should not be considered “cruel and unusual” for the convicted murdering rapist to be sentenced to the breaking wheel and then left for the pecking birds and vermin to slowly finish him off.
Funny, he doesn’t look Swedish.
Barack Jr. blames someone else. Who could have seen THAT coming?
BTW, I was in trouble all through school, and I never whacked anyone - not even by accident. I just got tired of being poor, so I started working on my life.
Too bad that Barack Sr. doesn’t distribute THAT message. Guess Barack Sr. hates me more than he loves Barack Jr.
“adolescents have a difficult time calculating the future and having a sense of the ramifications on their future lives.”
Chunk that SOB off a building and I bet he calculates his future life real quick.
So can the U.N. (Agenda 21; reduce Earth's population by 85%)
This is why the Teachers Union doesn’t want armed teachers: They would probably have to shoot some of their students in self-defense instead of letting themselves be assaulted.
GUILTY
“...she insulted me...”
Ever notice how the black community is always complaining about insults or lack of respect? My attitude is if you don’t respect yourself enough to wear a hat or a pair of pants the way they were designed to be worn, can’t speak proper English, or expect others to support you, why the hell should I respect you?
Yup, another of Obama’s sons.
The joy in being liberal is not having to think.
It always puzzles me that the defense lawyers always try to polish these turds by putting them in decent clothes. Who is ever fooled by that old trick?
Put him back in his saggy pants, muscle shirt and flat-billed cap cocked sideways on his head.
I know a friend of the victim’s mother. The details of this crime are horrendous and have not been fully reported.
I wonder why the NRA and other gun supporters don't make this point? How many defenseless people, mostly women, have been murdered by men who didn't use a gun? The number is vastly greater than the numbers of people killed in mass killings by shootings like the one in Oregon. The gun grabbers never mention that.
“After she insulted me, that’s when I became the teacher,” he said.
She was probably throwing her white privilege around. /s
Yeah, but I’d include the entire UN in the group that needs to go.
It read “I hate you all.”
Who is “you all” ..... a Southern Expression .... can’t believe this is the first comment on it; not HATE, not ALL, but YOU!
Yep, about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit ought to do it, applied gently in a number of places until done.
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