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Teen accused of stabbing mother 111 times pleads guilty
mlive.com Everything Michigan ^ | February 10, 2006 | The Associated Press

Posted on 02/12/2006 6:07:04 AM PST by bwteim

Teen accused of stabbing mother 111 times pleads guilty

2/10/2006, 2:41 p.m. ET The Associated Press

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy agreed Friday to serve 22 1/2 to 34 years for murder in the death of his mother, who was found with 111 stab wounds.

Christopher Dankovich pleaded guilty as charged to open murder in Oakland County Circuit Court.

"He didn't want to leave prison in a casket," said Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Lisa Ortlieb Gorcyca.

Open murder includes first-degree and second-degree murder, and the sentence Dankovich agreed to corresponds to second-degree murder. If convicted of first-degree murder, he would have faced a mandatory life sentence. Dankovich was 15 when his mother, Diane Michele, 50, was found dead in her Rochester Hills home on April 25. The teen was arrested later that day at his family's cabin in St. Helen, more than 100 miles to the north in Roscommon County.

Defense attorney Mitchell Ribitwer said there was never any question that Dankovich had killed his mother, though there were questions regarding his mental health and whether he could be held responsible.

"The family desired that the matter be resolved without a trial," Ribitwer said of Friday's guilty plea. "There's been enough trauma, misery and anguish already."

Dankovich also pleaded guilty Friday to using a computer to commit a crime, a four-year felony. Gorcyca said he had been using his computer to learn how to make a bomb to threaten someone and then killed his mother after she found out what he was doing.

Gorcyca declined to identify the target of the threat.

Sentencing is scheduled for March 6 before Judge John McDonald.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: dankovich; matricide; modernlife
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To: bwteim

She was an Psychotherapist/Speaker/Teacher/Trainer/Minister?


21 posted on 02/12/2006 6:31:12 AM PST by shiva
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To: bwteim

Well, yeah. What was he going to say..."I didn't do it"? Or "I didn't mean to do it"?


22 posted on 02/12/2006 6:33:16 AM PST by RichInOC (Stupidity is its own punishment...but not as often as it should be.)
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To: DCPatriot

Headline is enough to turn your stomach. The eye stabbing factoid was in another news source. It happened in 2005 April, but the young lad with his lawyer just pleaded guilty to the 22 1/2 - 34 year term a few days ago.


23 posted on 02/12/2006 6:34:02 AM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: bwteim
"He didn't want to leave prison in a casket," said Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Lisa Ortlieb Gorcyca.

Awwwwwww! Poor little thing. Betcha his mom didn't want to leave home in a casket either.

24 posted on 02/12/2006 6:34:46 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: shiva

And hypnotherapist, according to one website. In any event, she died a horrible death.


25 posted on 02/12/2006 6:39:26 AM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: GBoettner

Regardless of what the mother did in her career, the son did the killing.


27 posted on 02/12/2006 6:50:35 AM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: bwteim

From the size of those arms, Chrissy's gonna have a tough time inside.

29 posted on 02/12/2006 6:54:19 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: bwteim

Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.


30 posted on 02/12/2006 6:57:58 AM PST by jmq (Islam=Religion of Peace)
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To: bwteim

No mention of his father?
Oh, forgot having a father in a boy life don't matter anymore in the U.S.


31 posted on 02/12/2006 7:09:05 AM PST by Orlando (mensnewsdaily.com/forum(Child Support Casualties))
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To: bwteim
At same time, I'm surprised he got that much: 22 1/2 to 34 years. Think he'll even serve 22 years?

He'll probably do nearly all of that. Mich. changed its truth in sentencing guidelines a few years ago. Sentence minimums tend to be close to minimum time served.

CC

32 posted on 02/12/2006 7:16:23 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Billy Tauzin about Louisiana: "half the state is under water, the other half is under indictment")
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To: GBoettner
Nutcase raising a nutcase.

Very un-PC of you to speak the truth here.

33 posted on 02/12/2006 7:19:27 AM PST by madprof98
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To: Orlando
Oh, forgot having a father in a boy life don't matter anymore in the U.S.

Course not. Besides, as one of these articles emphasizes, the parents had an "amicable" divorce and were very concerned for the "best interests" of their son.

34 posted on 02/12/2006 7:20:35 AM PST by madprof98
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To: madprof98

Does this qualify as a "Hate Crime" ?


35 posted on 02/12/2006 7:20:49 AM PST by floridaobserver
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To: nuconvert

OK, so he gets out when he's 40. What then? What will we be releasing into society, other than another liberal voter?


36 posted on 02/12/2006 7:22:33 AM PST by Loud Mime (Republicans protect Americans from terrorists, Democrats protect terrorists from Americans)
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To: Loud Mime

Oh, don't be so sure. It sounds like he came from a Republican family.


Why do I think drugs were involved here? Drugs can bring on a schitzophrenic reaction like this.


37 posted on 02/12/2006 7:25:35 AM PST by floridaobserver
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To: bwteim
The mother's eyes were stabbed out

There's something psychological about that....anybody know?
38 posted on 02/12/2006 7:25:40 AM PST by Loud Mime (Republicans protect Americans from terrorists, Democrats protect terrorists from Americans)
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To: floridaobserver

I just got an email from Teddy Kennedy re-assuring me that this grisly killing doesn't count as a "hate crime" because both mother and son were of the same race.


Whew, that is a relief!


39 posted on 02/12/2006 7:27:11 AM PST by floridaobserver
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To: RichInOC
Well, yeah. What was he going to say..."I didn't do it"? Or "I didn't mean to do it"?

Think the jury would buy that the knife just slipped?
40 posted on 02/12/2006 7:32:50 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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