Teen Murderer Says Jail Is Too Hard, Appeals Sentence

WFTV-TV 9 ^ | December 4, 2006 | WFTV

[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.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Teen Murderer Says Jail Is Too Hard, Appeals Sentence

Let me think...

Here ya go kid. Call someone who cares.

[6SJ7]

TV video recap of the story is available. Wait till you see the end of the video; the mother of the perp is a real charmer.

[fish hawk]

In prison Messner is now known as the "little fat f@#%."

[Brad from Tennessee]

There was a saying when I was a kid: "You roll the dice, you pay the price."

This scumbucket should have been strapped to a gurney and injected with poison. He should consider a 22-year sentence a gift from God.

[Graybeard58]

wonder what Michaels mom would say about ther sons death?

From the link in number 11:

At one point during the testimony, the elderly mother of Michael Roberts had to be helped out of the courtroom as she was overcome with tears.

[dforest]

I would tell him to get used to it. Boredom will seem like a good dream after Bubba is through with you !

[Rb ver. 2.0]

He's young meat and will be highly desirable in the open prison population when he gets there.

[Cvengr]

The kids are still ahead of the homeless man. They now have a home in the Big House and are alive to think about it and make amends.

[mombonn]

Boo, hoo. Poor baby. Sob, sob.

Am I sufficiently sympathetic yet?

[Popman]

"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 said.

How about for every "A" each class per semester earned, he gets a week off his sentence?

For every "F" he gets, he gets an additional week of jail time.

[USF]

They can all rot as far as I'm concerned.

>This was a big case in our local (Dayona) news, and the general consensus of all I've spoken to in the area is we don't want any of them back out on our streets or neighborhood.

[marajade]

"He has been in juvenile detention for eight months, locked in a small cell and occasionally allowed to go to class."

That's a lie. It would be an outright violation of that youth's civil rights to deny him an education, even if he was imprisoned.

[Popman]

Just a second. All these kids are white. Where is the "Jesse and Al" show ?

They must be racist for not coming to bring "justice and peace" to these poor children railroaded by the government

[NonValueAdded]

Is this guy for real?????

Is his lawyer for real for going forward with the argument?

[gaijin]

News for the mother; You know what it is when you're "locked in a cell all day long"...?

PRISON!

[atomic_dog]

Oh my...that boy better get a hobby.

How about art?

[zendari]

WTF? Someone with such disdain for life gets juvenile detention?

Execute him.

[FreedomCalls]

TV video recap of the story is available. Wait till you see the end of the video; the mother of the perp is a real charmer.

That explains a lot! She's downright scary.

[MarkL]

In a situation like this, where someone says that "jail's too hard," he needs to be introduced to the concept of 22 years AT HARD LABOR, taking big rocks, and making little rocks, 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. It's a terrible shame they don't do that anymore.

Mark

[marajade]

The mother's charge that her son isn't getting what the other three are getting in so far as services can't also be true.