Posted on 12/15/2023 5:39:14 AM PST by Phoenix8
The Las Vegas teenagers accused of beating 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis to death in an alley near their high school claimed self-defense, saying the boy threw the first punch at a court hearing Thursday.
Four of the nine teens charged with Lewis’ murder appeared before Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Nadia Woods but did not receive bail as expected, with Woods instead saying she’d issue a written order on bond for each defendant next week, local CBS affiliate station KLAS reported.
The four teens — Damien Hernandez, 17; Gianni Robinson, 17; Dontral Beaver, 16; and Treavion Randolph, 16 — appeared in handcuffs and are being tried as adults for second-degree murder after they allegedly beat and stomped on Lewis’ head on Nov. 1 outside Rancho High School.
Lewis died of his injuries a week later.
Their defense attorneys argued that the teens should not all receive the blanket $250,000 bond per defendant that the state had requested because some were more involved in the beating of Lewis than others and the dollar figure should reflect that, according to the local station.
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They were defending themselves against the victim’s white privilege. It was oppressing them, even as he lay on the ground. /s
Either that one or a woman who was replaced during the trial said, after two long days of hours of expert explanations including showing the trillions to one odds of anyone but OJ leaving any part of the same dna strands in the evidence found at the crime scene “They didn’t show me nothing. Lots of people are walking around with the same blood types.”
He threw the first punch so 9 of us proceeded to beat and stomp the life out of him.
These jackass lawyers who come up with this bull sh*t are just about as guilty as these violent murderers.
Ethan Liming Akron,OH the defendants claimed self defense from a water pistol while they brutally beat him to death. one brother received 28mo and the other 6 months
“they convicted the defendants of assault and aggravated assault then what killed Ethan, the concrete?”
Amazing isn’t it? So stupid …or was it willful stupidity or I think likely even both.
More than one person has said because of the makeup of the jury they were determined to let OJ go, guilt a secondary consideration. He was a Successful black male, former big star and at a time after Rodney King and the LA riots.
A way to “stick it to the MAN”.
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