I guess this might be a Dr. Jekyl/ Mr. Hyde phenomenom where Malvo may have been a good chap at school but outside he was a terror since i doubt those kids would try to defend a killer outright. Or maybe the kid was basically within the norm limits of decency until he met Muhammad at the homeless center (one thing that is for certain is that the defence will surely try that one out during the trial). However whatever the impetus that duo still shot people without caring about the consequences of their actions, meaning that even if the kid was indoctrinated he would still be deserving of punishment (unless the defense says the kid was 'possessed' by Muhammad and became an automaton with no control over his actions).
That might seem ludicrous, but remember the legal system does not necessarily follow justice but the legal process (there is a subtle difference between the two, and in some cases like OJ Simpson the divergence can be more overt than subtle). However in this case i really doubt this murderous duo will walk free because for a person to pull of legal juijitsu then a very (or better yet extremely) competent lawyer (or better yet law team) is required that has a perfect grasp of jurisprudence, plus an ability to pick up mistakes made by the prosecution and use them to their advantage (eg think how the LAPD provided the defense with ammunition like 'tampered' crime scenes and investigators who had been making racial remarks in public). This lawyer (law team) requires a lot of money, a whole lot of money .....and that is one thing these two fellas do not have! Meaning they will have to rely on a court provided 'defence' which means they are certain to be prosecuted (lol, i saw the lawyer provided for that kook Muhammad being interviewed and that guy is either not adept at law or he is holding back for the trial, lol). Thus these guys will thankfully be prosecuted, unless some bolt out of the blue occurs, which in a case of people with little money is highly improbable if not impossible.
And as an aside i also saw a family member being interviewed, and she said that she saw that Muhammad guy force Malvo to sustain himself on a diet of honey and crackers (lol, yep, you read that right)!
Personally i find the relationship between Muhammad and Malvo very 'suspect.'
Just an airhead girl I doubt she had anything to do with it. Repeal the 19th amendment.
That's what I think. The older man took advantage of him, used him sexually and took power over him. Even the mainstream media who won't call it a homosexual relationship does refer to Mohammed as a Svengali type over Malvo.
This does not mean (for Pete's sake, he's seventeen) that he was a monster. It looks as if he did fall under this Mohammed's influence. And, yes, sexual molestation could be part of it.
I know a lot of the hostility here has to do with society's seeming willingness to excuse bad behavior if the motives are pure, but this little girl and this young man were behaving pretty normally.
He went on to behave pretty abnormally; don't jump off the deep end when people in his past remember him well.