Enjoy your stay. Just don't drop the soap in the shower....
Posted on 12/04/2006 3:34:17 PM PST by FreedomCalls
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- One of the teenagers responsible for beating a Holly Hill homeless man to death asked a judge to reduce his 22-year prison sentence Monday. Warren Messner and three other teens pled guilty to killing the man because they were bored, but Messner said prison is too hard.
Messner is a big boy. He was 15 at the time he was brought into the woods to see the homeless man his friends had been beating. Even at that young age, he outweighed the victim, Michael Roberts, by 200 pounds when he jumped on his chest, crushing his ribcage. Roberts died.
"Did you feel bad when you are doing it?" Messner was asked during questioning.
"Not really, no," he replied.
He didn't feel bad then, but he does now. He has been in juvenile detention for eight months, locked in a small cell and occasionally allowed to go to class.
Messner and his attorney said he has already learned his lesson and is ready to go home to help others. ...
"He's not getting the mental health, the schooling. He's not getting anything, anything but locked in a cell all day long," Lori Messner [his mother] said.
The judge and the state both argued that being deprived services and being locked away is precisely the point of prison. Warren Messner will spend the next 22 years in prison without the chance for parole.
(Excerpt) Read more at wftv.com ...
The little turd should have been hanged by the neck until dead.
He got off light and I, for one, enjoy his sniveling and hope that he continues to suffer.
"I'm bored here in prison. Can I go home now?"
"Oh, you're bored?! Ok. You can dig ditches or pound rocks or even clean toilets with toothbrushes. We have PLENTY to keep you busy with... Suck it up, punk!"
That quote says it all don't it ?
Judging from the pitcha, I'm guessing he's not missing many "social opportunities" in prison. What a buncha of loozas.
"People unclear on the concept."
Nope. Doesn't work for me. His victims are still dead.
Enjoy your stay. Just don't drop the soap in the shower....
"He's not getting anything..."
Well, Lori, that's exactly the point, you and your husband failed to provide your kid a good upbringing with discipline and the ability to form a life plan; now, he has gone off the rails. Who, Lori, is at fault here?
OMG, does this mean he doesn't even have a PS3?
The horror!
He should be grateful that he's not in a Chinese prison. He wouldn't last long if his organs were still good.
Prison is for punishment, they are just starting to get him ready for the big house. He will make soneone a good wife.
Are you really a friggin' ignorant sort?
Or do you simply play one on the internet?
Please go back and try to read my post, and try to wrap your brain cells around my words.
I never advocated releasing the young punk - I said clearly that LIFE IMPRISONMENT would be a more just punishment!
As it is he ONLY GOT 22 YEARS - which I strongly find fault with, as too lenient...
Like it or not {I don't at all} it seems, absent offenses committed in prison, he WILL be released in 22 years or less.
We had all better pray he can be "salvaged", or he will remorselessly victimize someone else.
Nor did I advocate releasing Berkowitz.
I would NEVER repeat NEVER advocate anything like that
I would hardly characterize him as a "good ole boy" under any circumstances.
I referred to him as "...a lost and evil soul walking amongst us", and I think that is pretty unequivocal in nature.
The fact that his soul may have been redeemed by Christ does not mitigate his sentence one IOTA in my belief - {or his}, and whether he is saved or not isn't even open to discussion.
Neither of us are G_d, and I doubt either of us can walk on water, so drop the dumb-a$$ posturing, and rudely inappropriate comments about releasing him into the arms of my family or anyone else's {I strongly support him remaining in prison without reservation or qualification for the rest of his natural life!}
- frankly, postS like yours are {let's all finish the sentence together, kids!} - void of real thought!
Don't enter a battle of wits when insufficiently armed.
A.A.C.
Ouch! Don't you ever get really angry with me, promise?
Jail is too hard. Ok, simple solution. Put him on Old Sparky.
Since he was a juvenile when he committed the crime he is not eligible for the death penalty.
Pity.
Messner, a big Mark Volman of the Turtles wannabe...
This kid is so pathetic. I almost feel bad for laughing at him.
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