Posted on 10/05/2015 2:22:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last year, a Massachusetts teenager named Philip Chism was accused of raping and murdering his teacher, Colleen Ritzer, after being asked to stay after school to study.
Chism was just 14-years-old at the time and a freshman in high school. His murdered teacher was an agonizingly young 24.
Ritzer’s body was found in the woods, partially covered by leaves, after being torn open with a box cutter. A letter was placed next to her lifeless form.
It read “I hate you all.”
Now, after months of prepping, the trial of Philip Chism is finally getting underway. He is being tried as an adult.
His defense team, quite predictably, is going with a mental health defense.
Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, spoke to ABC about the upcoming trial:
“I would really think that youth is going to be a huge factor. Part of the argument would be that Chism couldn’t control whatever disease or defect he had,” he said.
“I assume the defense will tie it into research on adolescent brain development, in particular, adolescents have a difficult time calculating the future and having a sense of the ramifications on their future lives.”
Why not just plead not guilty? There is surveillance footage that shows Ritzer heading into a school bathroom, with Chism following her, wearing gloves and a hood. He can be seen exiting the bathroom alone 12 minutes later.
He was also found with the murder weapon, hours later, a box cutter stained with blood.
Chism even confessed to area police, but Judge David Lowy has ruled that confession inadmissible on the grounds that he did not fully understand his constitutional rights at the time.
Still, according to a transcript of the confession released by Daily Mail, Chism uttered some chilling words, claiming that he attacked her after the teacher “insulted” him:
“After she insulted me, that’s when I became the teacher,” he said.
Jury selection for the murder trial is ongoing.
Some people need to be removed from the face of the Earth.
He's one of them.
Oh, and this:
"adolescents have a difficult time calculating the future and having a sense of the ramifications on their future lives.”
Is a steaming pile of BS.
Massachusetts. Not sure the jury can be counted on to do the right thing. And the judge already threw out the confession.
If his parents have enough money, he may just spend a few years in a country club psychiatric facility.
Administer a severe warming and, since this is his first murder, release him to his parents.
Daniel Bedwet, a law professor at Northeastern University...needs to be furloughed....
Must be really fun to be a judge. You can just make up whatever craziness you want.
Liberals who wring their hands in sympathy for such monsters need their sanity examined and transported to the nearest padded cells as soon as possible.
Id pay a buck to enter a lottery to fire a bullet into this POS’s head.
Another kid living with his mother with an absent father. By the way, mom is white, father not.
This kid is the image of Obama, looks just like a teenage version of Barry.
This Great Republic’s slide into stark raving madness began when we abandoned the tar-pot, the feather-bag, and the fence-rail.
Black lives matter. Another criminal who could have been Obama's son.
“adolescents have a difficult time calculating the future and having a sense of the ramifications on their future lives.”
Yeah, murder is like that.
“adolescents have a difficult time calculating the future and having a sense of the ramifications on their future lives.”
What a pile of garbage. When I was an adolescent, NOBODY had these issues. Shame on anyone for even attempting to use this nonsense.
Liberals who wring their hands in sympathy for such monsters should be required to have the monsters live with them.
Some people need to be removed from the face of the Earth?
I can think of a few billion...
Sadly we appear to be very near the bottom of the pit at the moment.
once Isis gets here in numbers and the war begins,,, in earnest... it may take some time to begin to piece things back together in the proper order
I don't go in for that "juvenile court" nonsense.
OK, maybe if you threw eggs at somebody's house or took your dad's car for a joyride without a license, you could be forgiven for your youthful indiscretion.
But not this. I don't care if he was nine years old. This is a capital offense and requires an adult court.
When I was a ‘dumb kid’, we all thought we were Superman: immortal, invulnerable, and omnipotent. Reality tended to intrude on our delusions ... It led us to risk our own lives, not to destroy others’.
If that wouldn’t make the liberal loons recant ,then nothing would.
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