Tag: charged as an adult

  • Odgren’s trial date set

    Trial date set in Sudbury high school slaying:

    You have got to be kidding me.

    A trial date has been set for John Odgren. Odgren is the teen accused of stabbing his classmate James Alenson to death at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts. The thing is the trial date is almost a year away…

    Middlesex Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein yesterday set a Sept. 15, 2008, trial date for John Odgren, 16. Odgren is charged with the Jan. 19 murder of classmate James Alenson, 15, inside the high school.

    Not that I give a damn about Odgren but why so long for a trial? Whatever happened to the speedy part? I want to see this kid get put away as soon as possible.

    Odgren is also one of the kids that the Helen Lovejoy’s are rallying around not only because he was charged as an adult but he also has Asperger’s.

  • White’s lawyers appeal to Mo. Supreme Court

    Lawyers take school shooting case to Mo. Supreme Court:

    The lawyers for Thomas White are appealing to the Missouri Supreme Court to have White tried as a juvenile.

    Public defenders said Monday they have appealed to reverse a lower court’s July decision that Thomas White, 14, should be tried as an adult. He faces four felony counts related to the school shooting last October and a charge of attempted escape from juvenile custody.

    White was 13 at the time of the shooting at Memorial Middle School.

    Nobody was injured when White allegedly fired a single shot into the ceiling. Prosecutors allege that White repeatedly tried to shoot the school’s principal but that the gun jammed.

    The public defenders are just delaying the inevitable. Now all court proceedings will be postponed until the state supreme court issues a decision or reverts the case back to a lower court. My prediction is that the Missouri Supreme Court will more than likely refuse to hear the case.

    If they do hear the case I’m sure they’ll get a bunch of tear-stained letters from suburban housewives who think no teen is capable of murder. Just on that possibility alone, I wouldn’t hear the case if I was a Justice.

  • Cassie Jo Stoddart’s killers sentenced

    Teens get life sentences for murdering classmate:

    The other day I posted about the brutal murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart. She was brutally murdered by two of her friends, at least one of which is a mutant. Her killers, Brian Draper, and Torey Adamcik were both sentenced to life without parole.

    Adamcik’s uncle gave the following statement during the sentencing hearing…

    “I feel very strongly that Torey is not a malicious person and that his life can yet be salvaged and that he can become a productive member of society,” said David Nelson, Adamcik’s Uncle.

    Does this sound like a productive member of society?

    “Just killed Cassie, we just left her house, this is not a f***ing joke,” says Brian Draper on the homemade videotape. “I’m shaking,” replies Adamcik.”I stabbed her in the throat and I saw her lifeless body just disappear,” says Draper.

    Cassie’s family disagrees as well…

    “I’ve seen no remorse, no tears whatsoever from any of you and then finally when you do say something, ‘Oh we’re sorry about what happened to Cassie.’ It was the most unsympathetic, fake sorry I’ve ever heard in my life,” said Anna Stoddart, Cassie’s mother.

    “You chose to do what you did, you chose not to walk away, you chose to cover the truth of your actions. You chose to leave Cassie dead in that house for days,” said Christie Stoddart, Cassie’s sister.

    Like most mutants, they’re probably only sorry that they got caught.

  • A mutant killed Cassie Jo Stoddart

    State Presents Sentencing Recommendation for Draper:

    I hadn’t heard about the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart until today. She was a 16-year-old Idaho girl who was brutally murdered by two people she thought were her friends, Brian Draper, and Torey Adamcik. The murder was more than vicious and the two teens actually videotaped the murder.

    “Just killed Cassie, we just left her house, this is not a f***ing joke,” says Brian Draper on the homemade videotape. “I’m shaking,” replies Adamcik.”I stabbed her in the throat and I saw her lifeless body just disappear,” says Draper.

    Both were tried as adults and convicted. Currently, they are going through the sentencing phase.

    And guess what. It turns out one of them, Brian Draper, is a full-fledged mutant.

    This is a passage written by Draper that was shown in court today. Titled Columbine, it reads: “I am becoming more and more obsessed with Columbine. It seems now that that’s all I think about. I would give anything to go back in time, and be a part of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s lives. They are my heroes. I will follow in their footsteps and maybe I’ll even meet them.”

    A series of some pictures that were also found on the hard drive of Draper’s laptop were displayed.

    Many were from the Columbine shooting; others depicted various ages and types of people holding a gun to their head.

    Too bad he can’t meet his heroes sooner rather than later.

  • Hainstock sentenced

    Hainstock Sentenced To Life In Prison But With Parole Possibilities:

    Eric Hainstock has been sentenced to life behind bars with the possibility of parole in 30 years for the shooting death of Weston Schools principal John Klang.

    Judge Patrick Taggart said that he considered Hainstock’s age and background before sentencing. He said that he believes the teen can be rehabilitated, WISC-TV reported.

    Defense attorneys had requested parole eligibility after 20 years while the state had requested 49 years with the date of eligibility being Sept.29, 2056 — or 50 years after the shooting at Weston Schools, WISC-TV reported.

    The jurors who convicted Hainstock said that they focused on the guns and ammunition that he brought to school and the number of shots fired in determining his intent to murder.

    Juror Brian Ludolph, of Prairie du Sac, said on Friday the fact numerous shots were fired by Hainstock convinced them the student intended to kill Klang. Ludolph said that Hainstock bringing the guns and ammunition to school also played into their finding of intent.

    Juror Diana Mielke, of North Freedom, said that the jury was initially split on whether Hainstock intended to kill Klang.

    Mielke said that she was initially among the six who thought Hainstock didn’t have intent to kill, but changed her mind after recalling Hainstock’s lack of emotion during the trial.

    Thankfully there was a jury with common sense who recognized Hainstock’s intent and weren’t fooled by his lies.

    Justice has been served.

    While you’re at WISC’s website take the poll and let them know how you feel about the verdict and sentence. You can probably guess how I voted.

  • Hainstock guilty

    Wisconsin Teen Guilty in Principal’s Death:

    Not only was Eric Hainstock found guilty in the shooting death of principal John Klang he was also convicted on the first-degree intentional homicide charge. He’s looking at life in prison.

    Sentencing is scheduled for tomorrow.

  • Breaking out the violin for Hainstock

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    Wis. teen who shot principal testifies he was bullied at school:

    Here we go. Now we get to see how rough poor widdle Eric Hainstock had it.

    On the morning of the shooting, Hainstock testified, he awoke feeling tired of being picked on at school and said to himself, “I have to get all of this to stop.”

    At school, he was stuffed into lockers, had his head dunked into toilets and was called a “fag” by his classmates, he said. As a result of the bullying, he attempted suicide three times.

    His classmates’ comments “cut a little deeper,” he said, because at the age of 6, he was sexually molested by his 12-year-old stepbrother. He kept the alleged assaults a secret, he said.

    Hainstock’s father, Shawn Hainstock, cried as his son testified.

    Wait a minute. I thought his father was an abusive ogre who didn’t care about his son.

    When he came home from school, Hainstock said, his parents forced him to do most of the housework. When he failed to do so, he was disciplined.

    Hainstock testified that his father often kicked him and also used a wooden board called “the board of education” to spank him.

    He said his father also refused to provide him with medication to help curb his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Yeah, like that. If they were as poor as everyone is making them out to be they more than likely would have been eligible for government assistance where the medication would have cost them next to nothing. Not to mention the fact that ADD and ADHD is probably the most misdiagnosed and over-diagnosed condition of the modern medical age in my opinion. And which one is it that makes the kids go crazy? Is it being on meds or not being on meds. I forget since I’ve seen both used as criminal defenses.

    After loading his father’s 20-gauge shotgun and .22-caliber revolver, he drove to school, hoping he could force Klang to listen to his problems, he said.

    Again, no reason to load the guns if his intent was to scare, which it wasn’t. Not only that but what made him think that taking two guns to school to threaten people with wasn’t going to land him in jail. Did he think that miraculously all his problems would disappear and there would be no repercussions to his actions? What a dumbass.

    When he entered the school, he screamed, “Everyone get in the office. I’m not f—ing kidding!”

    He said he didn’t get flustered when the school’s maintenance man, David Thompson, was able to grab the shotgun out of his hand. Hainstock said he reacted by pulling the handgun out of his pants.

    That sounds strangely like the characteristics of a cold-blooded killer to me. He’s lucky that Mr. Thompson didn’t blow him away right then and there.

    When Klang turned the corner, Hainstock testified, he pointed the gun at him and said, “I ain’t going to do nothing … let’s go to the office, I want to talk.”

    Hainstock said Klang agreed to talk to him in his office, but as they walked there, Klang grabbed him and the gun went off accidentally.

    “The gun was caught in the clothing of my arm and when he pulled my arm it went off,” Hainstock testified.

    He said he then aimed the gun at Klang’s arm and fired “so he would let go of him.”

    After an accidental third shot fired, Hainstock said he was in shock.

    “I didn’t think Mr. Klang was going to die … I hoped not,” Hainstock said. “I didn’t plan to hurt nobody.”

    “The gun was caught in the clothing of my arm and when he pulled my arm it went off,” How in the hell would he have to be holding the gun for that to possibly happen?

    Closing arguments are scheduled for today.

  • Defense testimony in Hainstock trial

    Defense rests in Hainstock trial:

    First, let’s hear from Hainstock’s grandmother…

    The last witness to testify was Hainstock?s grandmother, Irene Hainstock, who said Eric called her from jail after his arrest.

    “What have you done,” she recalled asking her grandson. “I don’t know, grandma. Something snapped in my head,” was the response.

    Some more students…

    Other defense witnesses included five students at Weston who saw Eric enter the school with a shotgun and saw it taken away from him. None remembered hearing him say, “I’m here to (expletive) kill somebody,” as one witness recalled.

    On cross-examination, however, most said they weren’t sure they could hear everything that was being said that day.

    Now let’s hear from Hainstock himself…

    In his own testimony, Hainstock said he brought the shotgun and pistol to the school to make people listen to him and did not intend to kill Klang.

    Hainstock said he needed the weapons — a 20-gauge shotgun and a .22-caliber revolver — “because they would be scared,” he said, referring to people at the school. “If they were scared they’d listen, hopefully.”

    Hainstock, 16, testified unemotionally as the first witness in the defense case after prosecutors rested their case Wednesday morning.

    Mounting frustration with his home life and with persistent taunting at school led him to the desperate action, he said, which he said was not intended to hurt anyone.

    But after Klang grabbed him from behind at the school, Hainstock testified, the gun went off.

    “It was accidental,” he said. He heard a grunt from Klang, he said, who continued to hold him. Hainstock said a second shot, which struck Klang on the side of the head but did not penetrate his skull, was intended for Klang’s arm, to get Klang to let go of him.

    Hainstock said he underestimated the lethal power of the .22.

    “I didn’t think it would hurt nobody that bad because it was so little,” he said.

    I don’t buy any of it. According to this article when asked by his attorney why Hainstock loaded the weapons he said it was “just a reaction.” Loading two separate weapons is not a reaction. That’s intent. And what did he think the .22 would do? Just bounce off people? And what if the shotgun was not taken from him. Did he think that a shotgun “wouldn’t hurt nobody?”

    Anything less than a conviction of first-degree murder is a travesty of justice.

  • Hainstock’s videotaped statement

    Wis. Teen Told Police He ‘Freaked Out’:

    The videotaped statement that Eric Hainstock gave to investigators was shown to the jury yesterday.

    The video, filmed just hours after the Sept. 29 shooting, shows Hainstock slouched in a Sauk County Sheriff’s Department interview room with Klang’s blood on his clothes. He tells detectives that he complained to Klang for three years about kids teasing him and calling him a “fag,” but that Klang did nothing to stop them.

    That morning after his parents left their home, he says in the video, he “was still ticked off” at various students and the principal.

    According to the criminal complaint, Hainstock, then a 15-year-old freshman, went to school outside Cazenovia, about 65 miles northwest of Madison, with a shotgun and a revolver.

    A janitor tore the shotgun away, and Hainstock pulled out the revolver, cocked it and got ready to fire, he tells detectives in the video.

    Hainstock was well-trained in firearms. You don’t cock the hammer on a gun unless you have full intentions of using it.

    He says Klang came toward him and asked him, ‘What’s going on?’”

    “I’m like, ‘I’m sick of you guys,’” he says in the interview.

    He ordered Klang into an office, and as they turned to walk there, Klang jumped him, Hainstock says. He stuck his pistol under Klang’s left armpit and fired three times, he says. Klang later died.

    “I just freaked out,” Hainstock says.

    Yet multiple witnesses have testified that they heard Hainstock say he was there to kill someone. To me cocking the gun definitely shows intent. If he wanted to scare someone he could have just pointed an empty gun at them. But no Hainstock went in there with two different loaded weapons with multiple rounds available for reloading. He was planning on a massacre. He didn’t freak out. He probably realized that when John Klang went for his gun that it was probably the only chance he was going to get for revenge. John Klang probably saved a lot of lives that fateful day.

  • More testimony against Hainstock

    Student: ‘We don’t need a Columbine here’:

    From special needs teacher James Nowak who had a metal stapler thrown at him by Hainstock.

    During testimony Monday afternoon in a Baraboo courtroom, teacher James Nowak recounted his own rising sense of tension with Hainstock, beginning with an incident on Sept, 14. That day, he said, Hainstock threw a metal stapler at him, narrowly missing his head and chipping the wall. When he returned to the classroom with Klang and Buildings and Grounds Director Phillip Rachuj, they found Hainstock holding a chair.

    “He had a chair above his head and he looked like he was going to swing it at us,” said Nowak.

    Rachuj was able to take the chair from Hainstock, and he was suspended from school for three days.

    Apparently, someone fashions himself as Stone Cold Steve Austin. Well, Trench 3:16 says your ass is going to prison.

    From Angela Young, the guidance counselor at Weston Schools…

    She said Hainstock was a boy who sought attention, enjoyed playing the victim and often placed blame for his actions on others. Young said he was often teased by other students, but he picked on them in return.

    Young testified that she was in the hall when Hainstock walked into the school but said she could not see him because of the decorations. She testified she heard Hainstock say “I’m going to (expletive) kill somebody.”

    You can’t play the bullying card when you’re a bully yourself. Then again this whole incident was never about bullying. It’s about a selfish and self-absorbed punk kid who wanted to exact his revenge on a man who cared enough to actually discipline Hainstock.