[bgill]

Jonathan Hoffman was briefly hospitalized for drug use a year ago. She said he was loud, coarse and argumentative in subsequent weeks and, on the day of the shooting, had tested positive for so-called synthetic marijuana, which could have triggered a probation violation.

But, but he was a good boy who was turning his life around and was to graduate from high school!!!

[Uncle Chip]

"It's a final vindication for my son, to restore his good name and reputation, because over the course of the last nine months, it's been tarnished in a very cruel manner," Michael Hoffman said.

Right -- he was hospitalized for drug use, on probation, using synthetic marijuana, antagonistic to his grandmother, shot by her, and she is convicted -- and that is a final vindication for your son.

What idiots the parents must be.