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.
