Posted on 04/15/2006 4:55:52 PM PDT by floridaobserver
The four teenaged punks who chased an NYU student into the path of an oncoming car looked and laughed as he lay on the street dying, a prosecutor revealed yesterday. "They didn't call for an ambulance. They didn't call for help. Rather, they stood on the street corner and laughed," prosecutor Joel Seidemann said of the 13- and 15-year-olds who chased Broderick John Hehman into traffic.
Hehman, 20, died four days later from his massive head injuries.
And the wolf-pack thugs, who allegedly laid in wait for their victim, could have even more to smile about now. Prosecutors lost their bid to try the teens as adults yesterday when their cases were transferred to Manhattan Family Court - where they face about half as much time behind bars if convicted of the top charge against them, felony murder.
Had they been tried as adults, the 15-year-olds would have faced nine years to life behind bars. Now, they face a maximum of five years in "restrictive placement," said Laurence Busching, head of the city Law Department's family court division.
If they're convicted of the lesser charges against them, including manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, they could get off with as little as 18 months in juvenile detention.
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For better or for worse, this is the way it works in the big city -- you prosecute with the charges on which you can get a conviction or satisfy the public with a plea deal.
What Federal Prosecutor is going to take that case to court? To get that low in your career you'd have to do something really bad, like give the Attorney General a wedgy or start impersonating Moe Howard in court.
Damn, I hate it when people step on my punchline.
Why do I suspect that the gang members were all African American?
It was three blacks and a Puerto Rican.
Not that it matters, but the Puerto Rican was black as well.
Those who think that race is not significant in a case like this do not know the law in New York State.If the crime is designated a bias crime then it is treated from day one differently than a non-bias crime by the police department and the courts.That is why the police department ridiculously labeled this an economic rather than a bias crime.
yeah, didn't you hear? The black little hoodlums only wanted his cell phone even though, they were chasing after him saying, "Let's get whitey".
I guess this isn't a hate crime, but a love crime?
Fast food is hit and miss in NYC. Some places are better than others. I know people who swear that the KFC on 14th is the best in the city.
Its a socialist hell hole filled with peverts, thieves, and imbeciles who prey on each other and think they are superior to the rest of us.
They all deserve each other.
All you hear out in the country are the horror stories, but NYC is one of the best places in the world to live and work in. Sure, nasty stuff happens, but dumb cruelty and sadism can be found all over the world; there it just gets more coverage.
The correct term is "African or American"
I can remember just a couple of months ago when a kid named "Fat" Nick took a baseball fat to a black in his neighborhood and all the newspapers were calling it a racist act. I live in Upstate, NY but you want to know something? NYers are dopes.
Yes, but we have six or eight different versions of Ray's Pizza and three different Papaya Kings.
True, New York is an amazing city. For the record, crime in NYC is at a thirty year low. .
We have murders here in Boca Raton too, by the way .. not too often, thank goodness.
Would love not to live in a city. The jobs just aren't in a small town unless you've lived there all your life or already have a profession.
4 x .45 cal ....4x 57 cents = $2.28 , which is more than the lives of these 4 punks are worth, but I would spend it in a heart beat.
But you must remember that N.Y.City's crime statistics are compiled by the same police department that said this case is not a bias-crime.
What can be purchased for $2.28?
I don't understand. :)
My family must have had 30 cars stolen over a 10 year period.
Mot to mention all of the murders and robberies of my friends and relatives.
Lived in Miami since '94 where you don't need to be rich to legally arm yourself.
Anyone still living in NYC really is putting their families life in danger.
The city apparatchiks and the cops could care less about any of King Bloombergs subjects.
I'll trade Rays pizza for Reys pizza anyday.
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