Missouri Supreme Court: Thomas White’s case to remain in adult court:
The State Supreme Court of Missouri has ruled that the trial for Thomas White will remain in adult court.
White was 13 when he discharged a round into the ceiling from a MAC-90 assault rifle at Memorial Middle School in Joplin, Missouri.
Police allege that he tried firing the gun at the principal of the school but the gun had jammed.
Pocatello Teen Denied Reduced Life Sentence:
17-year-old Torey Adamcik is one of the teens convicted in the brutal murder of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart. Along with his mutant buddy Brian Draper, the pair was sentenced to life without parole. Adamcik’s attorney requested a reduced sentence. Let’s hear from the attorney in question, Aaron Thompson…
“He is just a boy. A 17-year-old boy. A boy with absolutely no hope. A boy with absolutely no future,” said Aaron Thompson, Torey Adamcik’s Attorney.
He’s got a hell of a lot more future than Cassie Jo Stoddart has.
“So what if Torey is in a tiny little room? My granddaughter will never leave her casket,” said Paul Cisneros, Cassie Jo Stoddart’s grandfather.
Anyway, the request for reduced sentencing was denied and the judge laid the ol’ legal smackdown…
“He is guilty. He was found guilty. And he’s guilty as conduct. They jury has spoken. I don’t believe Mr. Adamcik should ever be released from prison. I’m going to deny your motion,” said Judge Peter McDermott, Bannock County.
It’s so refreshing to see a judge tell it like it is.
Adamcik’s cohort Draper will be in court on a similar request in 2 weeks. I’d be surprised if the scenario didn’t repeat itself.
Odgren attorney: Throw out first-degree murder indictment:
Criminal defense attorneys never fail to amuse me. Take for instance the attorney to John Odgren, Jonathan Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro wants the first-degree murder indictment against his client because the prosecution did not instruct the grand jury properly as to Odgren’s mental and psychological conditions.
For those of you just joining us a then 16-year-old Odgren is accused of stabbing 15-year-old James Alenson to death in a bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Alenson was allegedly chosen at random by Odgren. Odgren has been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome which some think that Odgren was not responsible for his own actions. To which I say bullshit.
Aspergers does not cause someone to become randomly violent and to claim such will only make people with Asperger’s outcast and reviled probably more than they already are. Asperger’s did not make John Odgren plan this murder months in advance. Asperger’s did not put the knife into John Odgren’s hand.
So in my unprofessional opinion, I think the prosecution absolutely did the right thing by not disclosing his alleged mental deficiencies to the grand jury. To do so would be almost criminal.
Judge Allows Brain Exam on Adamcik:
Congratulations to the citizens of Idaho. You’re now footing the bill for a neurological exam for an already convicted killer.
Torey Adamcik and his mutant buddy Brian Draper were both sentenced to life without parole in the brutal murder of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart. Don’t forget they also videotaped the murder.
Now Judge Peter McDermott has allowed the request of Adamcik’s attorney for the state to pay for a brain scan because his lawyer claims that Adamcik has a ‘brain deficiency’.
In his ruling Judge McDumbass stated…
“Mr. Adamcik is a needy person… He is being detained under a conviction of a serious crime, since he has been sentenced to a fixed life term without the possibility of parole. Mr. Adamcik does not have the funds, or the ability to generate the funds necessary to conduct the neuropsychological examination requested by his attorney.”
So how is that the state’s responsibility? The state has already proved Adamcik’s role in Cassie Jo Stoddart’s murder. Why should state now have to foot the bill for a ploy by his attorney to get his sentence reduced? If McDermott wants the test done so bad why doesn’t he pay for it out of his own pocket? Better yet why don’t all the people who think that he shouldn’t have been tried as an adult chip in? Oh, that’s right, they don’t put their money where their mouth is.
Scott Dyleski files appeal of life sentence for murder conviction:
The attorneys for Scott Dyleski are trying the spaghetti plan to get their client out of a life sentence without parole. By spaghetti plan, I mean they’re throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks.
Scott Dyleski was the 16-year-old who was tried as an adult, convicted, and sentenced to life without parole in the murder of Pam Vitale. Vitale was the wife of famous criminal defense attorney Daniel Horowitz.
One of the focuses on the trial was that some people felt trying Dyleski as an adult was inhumane, and that sentencing him to life without parole was worse. I’m not one of those people. He brutally bludgeoned Pam Vitale and carved a symbol in her back. If that doesn’t warrant being tried as an adult, nothing does.
Anyway, on to the matter at hand, his appeal.
Scott Dyleski’s sentence of life without the possibility of parole in the October 2005 bludgeoning death of Lafayette resident Pamela Vitale amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment because he was only 16 at the time, his lawyer argued in a court appeal this week.
The 183-page brief, filed Wednesday in state appeals court, also argues that there was not enough evidence during the trial of burglary — the special circumstance that allowed Judge Barbara Zuniga to sentence Dyleski to life without parole.
The judge also should have allowed a change of court venue because of the local notoriety; held a hearing on the reliability of DNA testing that linked Dyleski to the murder; and should have thrown out evidence from a home search that attorney Philip Brooks claims was based on a “recklessly inaccurate” search warrant affidavit, the brief argues.
Is there anything else? Can we get you a coffee or something? Did you not care for the color of the bailiff’s uniform? Were the courtroom chairs too stiff for you?
If Dyleski was 21 when he killed Pam Vitale this wouldn’t even be an issue, but some people just have to do things “for the children”. Even if those children are cold-blooded and callous killers.
Exam Requested By Adamcik’s Private Counsel in Pocatello:
I’ve posted about the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart before. She was the 16-year-old Idaho girl who was brutally killed by two scumbags she thought were her friends, Brian Draper, and Torey Adamcik. They also videotaped her murder. Back in August, they were both sentenced to life without parole after they were tried as adults.
Now the attorney for Adamcik is requesting that his client receive a neuro-psychological exam for his client on the taxpayer’s dime to see if he has a brain deficiency.
Brain deficiency? Adamcik and Draper sliced Cassie Jo Stoddart to ribbons, videotaped it, and bragged about her murder on the tape. He doesn’t have a brain deficiency he has a soul deficiency and a humanity deficiency and hopefully, a judge will make sure he has a society deficiency for the rest of his life.
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.
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.
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.
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.