Teen convicted of school attack plot faces re-sentencing:
The Michigan mutant, Andrew Osantowski, will have to wait until October to find out how much more will be added to his 4 1/2 year sentence. He was originally supposed to find out tomorrow but has been delayed because Osantowski’s attorney is appealing the conviction to the Michigan Supreme Court. I don’t want to jinx it but I’m pretty sure that Osantowski’s conviction will be upheld.
To some online, gunman is a hero, martyr:
We have an article here from the Detroit Press about people who idolize school shooters. Apparently, it was written by Captain Where The Hell Have You Been For The Past 8 Years.
In the videotapes Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC in the midst of the Virginia Tech massacre, he spoke of his children, brothers and sisters and compared himself to Jesus.
Many may shrug off such rantings as those of a deranged killer.
But not everyone.
“Cho Seung-hui, we fringed ones salute you,” reads one Web site that praises the bloodshed just days after the country recoiled at the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history.
Rowell Huesmann, a professor of psychology and communication studies at the University of Michigan, called such sentiments “disgusting.”
But, he added, there’s a reason for them.
“There are disaffected people who are alienated, for one reason or another, from society who wouldn’t do anything physically violent,” he said. “But writing these gives them a chance to be aggressive to society in a way that’s fairly non-risky.”
He says non-risky, I say cowardly. Get back to me when one of you mutants has the balls to say this to a family member of one of the victims. Then again that would require you to leave your mom’s basement.
If Cho wanted notoriety as a martyr for the disenfranchised, history indicates he’ll get it.
That’s what happened with Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, students at Columbine High School in Colorado who shot to death 12 classmates and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves eight years ago today.
And locally, it happened with Andrew Osantowski of Clinton Township in 2004. The then-17-year-old was accused of stockpiling an arsenal to gun down classmates and blow up his school, Chippewa Valley High in Clinton Township. His plan was thwarted after he shared it in an Internet chat with a teen in Washington state, who told her father. He, in turn, called Clinton Township police.
Online, Osantowski was praised.
“I, for one, salute Mr. Osantowski,” a Web site posting read at the time. Osantowski, who was convicted of threatening an act of terrorism and using a computer to threaten terrorism, was sentenced to 4 1/2 to 22 years in prison.
I wonder which site that was. Oh yeah. It was this one. What the article fails to mention is that the person who made that comment has since recanted his opinion of Andrew Osantowski.
But hey, if it opens the eyes of some parents who have at-risk kids hopefully it will avoid another Columbine or Virginia Tech.
Osantowski to seek Supreme Court appeal:
The last time we heard from convicted school shooting plotter Andrew Osantowski his conviction was upheld and he found out that he might receive more prison time according to the Michigan Court of Appeals. Now his attorney is appealing to the Michigan Supreme Court.
The appellate attorney for Andrew Osantowski said that she will ask the state Supreme Court to hear arguments on a half-dozen issues, including the constitutionality of the terrorism statute and his sentencing guideline range.
Marla McCowan, Osantowski’s appellate attorney, said she also asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its March 2006 decision to allow Osantowski’s statement to be used in the case. McCowan said she is arguing that Osantowski’s Miranda rights were not properly provided. She said a decision on that issue could be made by May.
Osantowski is scheduled for resentencing June 13th but this appeal could delay that.
Teen imprisoned in massacre plot could get longer sentence:
It seems that the Michigan Mutant, Andrew Osantowski, may be spending more time behind bars than his original 4 1/2 year sentence.
The Michigan Court of Appeals said the trial judge made an error in calculating Osantowski’s sentence. Macomb County assistant prosecutor Josh Abbott said that Osantowski’s minimum sentence should be at least 7 to 10 years.
Of course I’m sure this will be tied up in appeals until kingdom come.
Also, his conviction was upheld.
Teen imprisoned in massacre plot sentenced in unrelated cases:
The Michigan Mutant, Andrew Osantowski has been sentenced for the break-in at a local gun shop. He received a sentence of 11 months but they may as well just throw out the charges because he’ll serve in concurrently with his 4 1/2 year sentence for the school plot. Way to serve justice there Judge. A concurrent sentence will be sure to teach him a lesson.
Our favorite Michigan mutant, Andrew Osantowski, is back in the news again. This time for one of his many sentencings. He will be sentenced on March 6th for charges of breaking and entering into a gun shop which he pleaded guilty to. He had stolen the guns in preparation for his planned assault against Chippewa Valley High School. He is already serving a 4 1/2 year sentence for the plot.
The original Michigan mutant, Andrew Osantowski, is back in the news again. This time he’s pleaded guilty to larceny charges for stealing tools from a cemetery. The sentence for this charge should be handed down at the end of February.
Teen imprisoned in massacre plot pleads guilty to stealing guns:
The original Michigan mutant, Andrew Osantowki, has pleaded guilty to stealing two guns that were unrelated to his school shooting plot conviction. In June 2004, he had stolen an AK-47 and a shotgun from a gun shop. Osantowski still has to go to yet another trial in January for theft charges for a stolen golf cart that was taken from a golf course and tools he stole from a cemetery.
Teen who plotted school massacre faces new charges:
Our favorite racist from Threat Central Michigan is due back in court…
A teenage boy convicted of threatening a Columbine-style attack at a Clinton Township high school will face trial in August for unrelated criminal offenses.
Andrew Paul Osantowski, who turned 19 earlier this month, is scheduled to go on trial Aug. 29 in front of Judge Matthew Switalski in Macomb Circuit Court, charged with burglary of a building, larceny and receiving and stealing stolen property. Police say these incidents occurred before his arrest in September 2004 for making a terrorist threat.
Osantowski was convicted about one year ago in circuit court for making a threat of terrorism, use of a computer to further a terrorist act and possession of stolen weapons in connection with his online threats of a massacre at Chippewa Valley High School. He was sentenced in July to 4 1/2 years to 22 years in prison.
One of the offenses for which he is currently charged is for stealing a golf cart from Fern Hill Golf and Country Club in Clinton Township.
About four months ago, the state Court of Appeals reversed Switalski’s throwing out of the bulk of Andrew Osantowski’s confession to police. The statements will assist the county Prosecutor’s Office in pursuing the latest charges against Osantowski.
County Prosecutor Eric Smith previously said his office would not offer the younger Osantowski a plea bargain because of his prior felony convictions.
These charges are considered juvenile charges. No word yet on how this would affect Osantowski’s current adult sentence.
Convicted teen’s dad gets probation in deal:
Marvin Osantowski, the father of would be school shooter Andrew Osantowski, was sentenced to 18 months probation after pleading guilty to receiving a stolen golf cart from his son…
In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges that Marvin Osantowski helped his son hide a cache of weapons, including an AK-47, bomb-making devices and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the family home in Clinton Township.
Marvin Osantowski, a DaimlerChrysler employee with disabilities, said he accepted the plea deal to spare his family a trial on the weapons charges.
“To keep Andrew out of the news, I chose this route,” Osantowski said. “Am I happy it took so long? No.”
Biernat also modified Marvin Osantowksi’s probation terms to allow him to visit his son in the Macomb Correctional Facility in Lenox Township.