Tag: Andrew Osantowski

  • The Unintentionally Funny Lawyer

    The Unintentionally Funny Lawyer

    Osantowski’s attorney wants charges dropped:

    My favorite attorney turned unintentional comedian is in the news again. Andrew Osantowski’s lawyer, Brian Legghio, is now trying to say that the plot Andrew Osantowski spoke to Ceilia Ginty about is protected as free speech. I think the Founding Fathers just rolled in their collective graves when I typed that. Again. I say let’s go to the chat transcript

    on judgment day ill prolly kill him, my mom, my sistyer, my autisitc brother and my 3 cats

    bring a gun to school, ur on the front of every newspaper

    didnt choose this life, but i damn well chose to exit it

    i cant imagine going through life without killing a few people

    Now, of course, Mr. Osantowski is free to say those things. However, what he is not free from is the repercussions from his own actions.

    I don’t know if Mr. Legghio is trying to be funny, but he sure gives me a chuckle. On the other hand, Assistant Macomb County Prosecutor Steven Kaplan lays out the facts…

    “We don’t have to prove he would have done it or he had the ability,” Kaplan said. “The communication itself is the crime. We can prove he had the motive and the wherewithal to commit carnage at the high schools. He had hundreds of rounds of ammunition.”

    So what Mr. Legghio is saying that the threats made by Andrew Osantowski were protected as free speech; therefore, authorities should not have acted on those threats, which may have culminated in the senseless bloodshed of students and staff at Osantowski’s school.

    Makes perfect sense to me. Assclown.

  • Lawyer tries to get Osantowski charges dismissed

    Lawyer tries to get Osantowski charges dismissed

    Teen’s lawyer: Dismiss terror charges:

    This is like watching a bad episode of Law & Order. Andrew Osantowski’s lawyer, Brian Legghio, is trying to get the internet messages he sent to Celia McGinty dismissed because they don’t prove the accusations of the terrorism charges. Oh, really? How about a little sample from the chat transcript?

    on judgment day ill prolly kill him, my mom, my sistyer, my autisitc brother and my 3 cats

    bring a gun to school, ur on the front of every newspaper

    didnt choose this life, but i damn well chose to exit it

    i cant imagine going through life without killing a few people

    got that has to be so hard

    nothing wrong with killion

    all god’s creatures do it

    in one form or another

    yep

    people can be kissing my shotgun straight out of doom

    i tell it how it is

    if u dont like it u die

    if i dont like what u stand for, you die

    if i dont like the way u look at me, u die

    i choose who lives and who dies

    Sounds like terroristic threats to me. Nothing is more pathetic than a desperate attorney in the media.

  • Osantowski to stand trial

    Osantowski to stand trial

    Teen accused of planning an attack on his high school ordered to stand trial:

    No news of any great significance except that Andrew Osantowski has been ordered to stand trial for the charges against him and will be arraigned on February 7th.

    I guess it’s a procedural thing because I thought it was pretty much a given that he was going to be tried. What struck me as odd in this article was the following…

    Dozens of Chippewa Valley students attended Wednesday’s hearing as part of a government class at the high school.

    One of them, student government president Tom Novik, said he and his fellow students could have sat in on another case. But the 17-year-old said it was important to come to Osantowski’s hearing.

    “I took it personally when it happened,” Novik said. “I was worried for everyone. … As of now, I think it’s behind us.”

    Now, I’m no supporter of Andrew Osantowski, but I don’t see the point of allowing students from the school that he intended to show up to attend the proceedings. Could the defense make an issue of this, or have I been watching too much Law and Order?

  • Idaho Teen Honored in Michigan

    Idaho Teen Honored in Michigan

    Idaho teen honored for helping avert Detroit-area school attack:

    Celia McGinty is the Idaho teen who tipped off authorities to Andrew Osantowski’s school shooting plot after online chats that they had.

    The school and community where the shooting was to take place are now honoring her. She should be honored. A lot of kids don’t have the courage that she did, or would just dismiss it as idle talk.

    However, one person is not too happy about the celebration. Andrew Osantowski’s lawyer, Brian Legghio. He had this to say…

    “I’m absolutely appalled at the rashness of the Macomb County law enforcement community,” Brian Legghio told The Detroit News. “Their conduct taints the judicial process.”

    “By glamorizing this young lady and claiming that she prevented some tragedy is to convict my client in the press and to deny him a fair trial by impartial jurors,” Legghio said.

    Translation: There’s no way in hell I can win this case, so I wish people would stop talking about it.

    Mr. Legghio, I think, would best serve his client by doing his talking in court and not in the media. Then again, I didn’t go to no fancy lawyerin’ school.

    It will be interesting, to say the least, to see what Mr. Legghio’s defense strategy is going to be.

  • Osantowski Case Delayed

    Osantowski Case Delayed

    Case delayed for teen accused of making threats against Detroit-area school:

    Judge Linda Davis denied a motion by defense lawyer Brian Legghio to remove herself from the Andrew Osantowski case, following a claim by Legghio that Judge Davis is being swayed by a community outcry. Legghio is going to appeal the decision, which could take 6 to 10 weeks.

    Assistant prosecutor Steven Kaplan claims…

    “It’s a desperate ploy by a guilty defendant to seek to delay the proceedings in an attempt to motivate the witnesses not to return,”

    Legghio defends his decision to appeal…

    “The motion was filed to ensure fairness and judicial integrity,” Legghio said. “It was not a stalling tactic.”

    This has got all the earmarks of a long-drawn-out court case.

  • More Charges Filed against Osantowski

    More Charges Filed against Osantowski

    Teenager accused in Columbine-like plan faces other charges:

    Andrew Osantowski has a new charge against him yet again. This time for spitting on another inmate, which is considered assault. When you’re 17 and in jail, your best bet is to keep a low profile. Spitting on an inmate is not a low profile. I’d be curious to know what the ethnicity of the other inmate is.

    As was reported previously, Osantowski was arraigned on two additional charges of two counts of breaking and entering, two felony counts of larceny in a building, and two misdemeanor counts of malicious destruction of property. The B & E charges can carry a 10-year sentence. The charges stem from an online journal attributed to Osantowski.

    Center Line Police Detective Robert Wroblewski said he had no suspects in the break-ins until he read a Sept. 22 news article about an online journal attributed to Osantowski. The postings describe break-ins almost identical to the March 27 and April 8 incidents.

    It’s unknown whether if I had anything to do with Center Line police finding Osantowski’s website, as I never heard back from any law enforcement agencies.

    The article also states…

    In a note dated April 9, the writer wishes a happy birthday to Columbine killer Eric Harris.

    That’s half-true. The exact quote is…

    April 9, 2004-Happy B-day to Eric Harris, NJ teen sentenced to 10 years in jail for Columbine Like Plot.

    Eric Harris’ birthday is April 9th but the teen from New Jersey he’s referring to is Matthew Lovett who was sentenced the day before Osantowski’s journal entry to 10 years for his own school shooting plot.

    I’m not surprised that the Detroit Free Press didn’t check that fact. Their motto should be… “Print First. Ask questions later.”

  • Trench in the media…yet again

    Trench in the media…yet again

    Online, teen is praised for alleged bomb plot:

    Well, well, well. Look who made it into the media again. Yours truly. This time for the Andrew Osantowski case. But it’s factually incorrect as usual. While I appreciate that the article is trying to show how that there are kids like Osantowski out there that worship the Columbine killers, I have to take the Detroit Free Press to task for a couple of things…

    “I don’t know about the rest of you mindless self-righteous people out there, but I, for one, salute Mr. Osantowski,” a posting signed by someone identified as The_Grandest_Dragon wrote on the Web site The Trenchcoat Chronicles .

    The domain name is taken from the Trench Coat Mafia, a group Klebold and Harris belonged to. Although the site’s keeper apparently condemns their killing spree — America’s deadliest school shooting — many postings on the site defend them.

    First off, my domain name does not come from “The Trenchcoat Mafia”. I’ve been referring to myself as “TheTrenchcoat” online since 1997.  Secondly, the commenter who called himself The_Grandest_Dragon did, in fact, make that comment, but in his defense he also made the following comment in the same entry the first comment is taken from…

    I have been reading your sight for quite some time now, and yeah i guess it has sunk in that im in the wrong. You are right trench, everyone you have talked about on this site, what they have done did nothing to make their lives or anyone else’s any better, and i guess life is just too short to hate everything all the time. Sorry about posting twice, i had a couple of ones after the exlcamation marks, i pressed stop but i guess it went through anyways. You where right and im sorry.

    Comment by The_Grandest_Dragon — Friday Sep 24, 2004

    Lastly, while the article does correctly state that I do condemn the Columbine killings, that point can’t be stressed enough, the impression the article gives me is that I somehow encourage the pro-Harris and Klebold comments that are left on my site. Nothing could be further from the truth.

    While I do attract a large number of what I call “mutants” I leave their comments on my site for a reason. Part of what I’m trying to do here is to show parents and educators that there are kids out there that worship the Columbine killers. Check any one of my entries about Columbine or the mail I receive. Any one of these kids might be your son, daughter, relative, or student. It’s a growing problem that can’t be ignored.

    So, If anyone coming to my site from the Detroit Free Press is now aware of the problem that I’m trying to expose, then the article has served a purpose. Other than that, being falsely misrepresented in the media? Yeah, I don’t know what that’s like.

    And please do not e-mail the author of the article. I have already done so, expressing my concerns.

    UPDATE: I exchanged e-mails with the author of the article, and she was willing to rectify the situation. Also, I accidentally deleted some comments from this entry. I’m monkeying with a new spam blocker and it may have deleted some comments.

  • More on the Osantowskis

    More on the Osantowskis

     Quiet teen’s terror plot stuns school:

    Just some more tidbits about the Osantowski case that I missed.

    Osantowski enrolled at Chippewa Valley High only 10 days before his arrest. How can you hate your school that fast, especially when he requested to go to that school because all his friends were there? Obviously, there’s something mentally wrong with that kid.

    Check out this quote from his arraignment…

    Andrew Osantowski’s only public comments Friday came during his video arraignment. Osantowski, his pale skin and blond hair a stark contrast to his black T-shirt, was polite and composed when asked for his thoughts on bond by Magistrate John Russi.

    “I’d like to participate in, like, anti-drug programs or antiviolence programs. Anything I can do to help the community,” Osantowski said, just after requesting a court-appointed attorney.

    Oh, no. No community service for you. Don’t you realize the severity of the charges you’re facing? I guess he thinks in his mind that he really didn’t do anything wrong.

    Conflicting accounts of the father Marvin Osantowski…

    His father came on-screen a short time later to face charges of concealing stolen firearms and conspiring to conceal. He told the magistrate, “I’m a good citizen,” before his bond was set at $600,000.

    And…

    Marvin Osantowski is an autoworker on disability with a penchant for neighborhood causes. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and a founding member of a local Catholic church. In 2000, he was appointed to the township committee after protesting a road expansion in his neighborhood. Fellow members didn’t notice anything unusual. In fact, he seemed like a nice man, said Jason Davidson, who is the vice president of the Clintondale Community Schools Board of Education.

    However…

    The teen apparently targeted the liaison officer because she handled a case in which he and his father were accused of stealing three golf carts from Fern Hill in May. Both were charged with receiving and concealing stolen property and were arraigned Thursday morning, only hours before their home was raided on the terrorism tip.

    And according to the chat transcript, Andrew Osantowski claims his dad beat him.

    Maybe he’s one of those guys that keeps up public appearances but is a real jerk at home.

    Curiouser and curiouser.

  • The Bullying Myth

    The Bullying Myth

    Violence ensues when teenagers are bullied:

    This is an opinion piece from Eastern Michigan University’s magazine by Lindsay Buhagiar. She takes the stance that if people like Eric Harris and Andrew Osantowski were not bullied, they would not have planned or committed acts of violence.

    While I respect Miss Buhagir’s right to her opinion, it’s a load of crap. Yes, bullying is a severe problem in our schools that needs to be corrected. However, I don’t think in either case that bullying was a major factor.

    Both Harris and Osantowski were racists and anti-Semitic. Both had past criminal histories of break-ins. Most importantly, both had parents that that didn’t care enough to get them the help they needed.

    Now, your novel approach to be nice to those that are different from us is fine, but the subjects involved didn’t exactly make it easy for themselves by having beliefs that are shunned by most reasonable people. It’s hard to get attached to “Hug a Nazi” day. What do you think would have happened if a cheerleader or jock or whatever tried being nice to Harris or Osantowski? They would have been met with a nice “fuck you” for their troubles. The alleged bullying was just an excuse. In reality, they’re nothing more than psychopaths.

  • Andrew Osantowski’s Website

    Andrew Osantowski’s Website

    Here’s a Trench Exclusive. I have reported it to their local law enforcement and media. I told you a few days ago that I had what I believe to be one of Andrew Osantowski’s websites blacklisted but that I had a partial mirror site. That site can be found here. It has no details whatsoever about his alleged bombing plot. It does go into detail about various break-ins, theft, and vandalism. I have no proof that this site actually belonged to Andrew Osantowski, but the details on the site and details that I’ve picked up in the media make me convinced that it is his site.