Kip Kinkel seeks new trial yet again

Kip Kinkel’s Attorneys File Appeal, Seek New Trial:

Kip Kinkel is asking for a new trial again.

You remember Kip don’t you? He’s the soulless monster who killed his parents and two of his classmates from Thurston High in Oregon. The same 16-year-old who was sentenced to 111 years for the killings.

Now the 26-year-old Kinkel is trying to get a new trial again using the insanity method. That request has already been denied once.

Let’s hear from one of his attorneys…

Dennis Balske: “Nobody’s trying to, quote, get him off in any sense of the word. And so what the case is about is whether or not he gets to have a trial at which a jury determines whether or not in fact he was insane at the time.”

If Kinkel were to get a new trial and found insane he would be transferred to a state hospital. So basically since he can’t get out of prison he wants to stay in a cushy hospital.

What I’d like to know has he been insane since the shootings? Or was this that legendary ‘temporary’ insanity we’ve heard so much about.

And here’s another great case for bringing back asylums for the criminally insane. Don’t make the insanity plea an incentive. Make the places just as nasty as prison and we’ll see who is truly insane and who has a case of faker-itis.

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3 responses to “Kip Kinkel seeks new trial yet again”

  1. Kdogg Avatar
    Kdogg

    making insane asylums bad or worse than prison is how many of them were shut down in the first place. Furthermore, just look at how mentally ill inmates do in prison. They get even worse than they already are. Having said that, this SOB should not get a new trial. There’s a difference between being insane and being evil. Kip is the latter and there is no cure for that.

  2. Anon Avatar
    Anon

    The purpose of hospitals for the mentally ill is not to provide a comfortable life to those who have knowingly committed a crime while completely in touch with reality. It is to treat those who were not. The only fair method that comes to mind is to hope that juries aren’t composed of fools. Of course, they often are, but it’s still a better system than simply tossing the baby out with the bathwater. Needless to say, I am in full agreement with Kdogg on this matter.However, many people would say that true psychopaths are evil despite perhaps being severely mentally ill. Whether they are treatable is highly debatable.

  3. Anon Avatar
    Anon

    I think you should all listen to Kip’s interrogation before you make any sort of judgements, it may open your eyes

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