Posted on 09/04/2019 10:01:07 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The 24-year-old man who threw a boy over a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in April is appealing his conviction.
On April 12, Emmanuel Aranda said he went to the mall intent on killing someone. According to the criminal complaint, he told investigators that he was angry for the way women at the mall rebuffed his attempt to talk.
Unable to find an adult victim, he chose instead to grab the 5-year-old boy named Landen and throw him over a third floor railing, 40 feet to the concrete floor below. The child suffered numerous broken bones, head trauma and severe bleeding. Paramedics revived the child and rushed him to Children’s Hospital.
After four-and-a-half months of medical care, the boy returned home in early September.
Aranda later pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder and was sentenced to 19 years in prison in June.
On Friday, Aranda formally appealed the judgement of the Hennepin County court.
Aranda’s mother Becky said her son has fought mental illness since he was three years old and had hoped for a continuance to allow more time for the court to access medical records.
Prosecutors say Aranda understood his act was both deliberate and wrong.
Nice to hear that the little boy has finally been able to return home.
Is this Omar’s husband/brother?
“Prosecutors say Aranda understood his act was both deliberate and wrong.”
How nice. How about an equal number of HIS bones get broken up?
Why isn’t Aranda dead yet? No justice possible now. Somebody should’ve threw him over.
Bring back public hanging.
“he told investigators that he was angry for the way women at the mall rebuffed his attempt to talk”
Has he “converted” to islam, and now contends that his “religion” excuses his response to rejection?
This son of a bitch should have been hanged then incinerated on April 12th. The same day he did this. He’s a f*ckin monster and needs to be destroyed.
Bring back public hanging.
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Yup. This one should have been boxed’n’buried already.
What? They haven’t put him in with the general population yet? Or does the general population nowadays buy into the meme that all whites must die?
He probably read the Kate Steinle case and figured “maybe a crazy judge will save me?”
His assumption is probably accurate.
Come on, Aranda. Show us how you did it. Toss Aranda off the balcony and save tax dollars.
Always the lawyer’s cop out - poor upbringing so they take it out on unsuspecting others.
Lets throw him off the 3rd floor to the concrete and will take a year off his sentence.
I don’t understand. He entered a guilty plea. What possible grounds are there for appeal?
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Put this guy in the general prison population and let jailhouse justice take its course.
Nowadays, no matter how open and shut a case is, an appeal is expected.
Lawyers getting more taxpayer dollars.
Perhaps his sentence should give him the option of 19 years in prison or hurling himself from a 40 foot drop onto concrete with no protective gear.
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