Posted on 01/29/2008 7:37:00 PM PST by jdm
so, he was on the street? whaaa???
who would the victims sue, were he to strike again, for letting this menace to society out on the streets as if...nothing had ever happened?
He killed 4 people 10 years ago and he was out on the streets with a gun? Unbelievable!
So how the f*** does he get an adjudicated record and get to own firearms??????
I seem to remember people had conniptions about him being released. But he was that 14 year old that killed all those kids in schoool, and because he was so young, Arkansas had no provision to try him as an adult. He was released as a 21 year old.
Happy to see the system has a chance to rectify their error, and nobody else has been killed in the process.
"The system" got lucky -- in spite of itself.
"Nobody"....that we know of, at least. Doesn't mean he hasn't messed up other people's lives in other ways.
And so, with a ten year sentence, he'll be back out on the street in what, 3-5 years? In his demented prime?
2 youths aged 11 and 13 were arrested, Mar. 24, in the killing of 4 schoolgirls and a teacher outside a Jonesboro, AR, school; later committed to a juvenile detention center.
Assuming the jurors remembered the incident from 1998 (it got a lot of media attention at the time, and they're in the same state), they wouldn't have known the name of the 13-year-old involved...or suspected that the 23-year-old man being tried had been responsible for the earlier atrocity.
Where to start....
With prosecutors like this, there is no need to waste money on public defenders.
Federal, no parole. He can earn a few months off his sentence for 'good behavior'. I think you can get up to 15% off, so a 10 year sentence would be about 8.5 years. That's still more than he got for the killings.
Possible correction. Another source suggests that the correct number for federal inmates is 87.2%, not 85 percent, so he’d serve a few weeks longer.
We knew he was living somewhere in NW Ark area. Glad they got him.
and they want to keep guns out of the hands of honest citizens....
ping
Too bad he couldn’t be tried as an adult when he was 13 years old !
This is beyond the pale. I don't understand how the vicitms of his crime do not take justice into their own hands. I was given a 12-ga shotgun for my 14th birthday and certainly understood the lethality of guns. This scumbag was 13 when he butchered those people, after viciously using a fire alarm to lure them outside.
If it got out that the jurors remembered the Jonesboro shooting and discussed it in deliberations, it would be a mistrial. The publicity would almost guarantee a change of venue and might make it impossible for the guy to get a fair trial in the state. Any competent defense attorney would argue jury bias in the second trial, and it would be a convincing argument.
The mistral part, if it were known; true, but the, ‘gee he shouldn’t have a gun when he’s doing drugs part’. Makes it sound like the guy doesn’t care about prosecuting either.
Did Mitchell Johnson or the other guy ever say why they killed five people or they were sorry?
THIS is an example of the sort of government tyranny that the Second Amendment is intended to deal with. When anti-gun types try to tell me it’s unrealistic to expect that our government will ever become so tyrannical that we need to fight it off with guns, I point to this sort of thing. There are huge numbers of violent criminals who have been tried and convicted, and then deposited back on the streets by order of the government, to kill and maim and terrorize law-abiding citizens. Sure feels like tyranny to me.
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