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Entries in stabbing (4)

Friday
12Feb2010

The Odgren tapes

Lot's of activity in the case of John Odgren. He's the teen who is accused of stabbing 15-year-old James Alenson to death in the bathroom of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. He's claiming Asperger's (or in this case the sandwich of doom known as AssBurgers) as his defense. Like I've said before Asperger's does not make one a homicidal psychopath. So from now on anyone that claims Asperger's as a defense gets the Sandwich of Doom labeling.

Anyway the latest is that Odgren's lawyer claims his client's rights were violated when his prison phone calls were recorded. Excuse my lack of a lawyerin' degree but I thought that was standard practice in prisons and that it was clearly posted that the calls were being recorded.

Oh I see, Odgren's lawyer argues that Odgren has a child's mind and is not developed enough to legally waive his right to be recorded. That's funny. I heard that he was a Wile E. Coyote Super Genius who happened to have a passion for crime scene investigations. Does that sound like a child's mind to you?

However the DA was quick to point out that during the conversations a recorded message played saying "This call is subject to monitoring and recording."

In one of the recordings Odgren allegedly says that the real killer is out there and that he's being persecuted. And here I thought that Johnnie Cochran was no longer with us. If the sandwich fits you must acquit.

In another conversation Odgren seems to even try to rationalize James Alenson's murder...

"The worst that could possibly happen is manslaughter, because I didn't know him, it wasn't a crime of passion and it wasn't premeditated.''

Again, not sounding too much like an innocent.

More on this as I have the time.

Sunday
13Dec2009

Teen stabbed ex 29 times outside of Alaska school

Boy in stabbing case faces attempted murder charge:

Mr. white boy wanna be gangsta over there is 16-year-old Nicholas Chamberlain of Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska. He's accused of luring his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend, Lory Miebs, out into the woods with a promise of ring before stabbing her 29 times.

Chamberlain allegedly told her to close her eyes so he could do a magic trick but instead Chamberlain plunged a folding knife into her neck. He stabbed her so hard in the skull that the blade bent and then he started using the saw blade from the knife.

Luckily she survived the attack and at last report is now breathing on her own.

Chamberlain has been charged with attempted murder and has been charged as an adult thankfully.

I'm sure in the coming weeks and months we'll hear how he was bullied or had a rough childhood and how he shouldn't be tried as an adult. Someone who is 'just a kid' doesn't stab someone 29 times while changing blades in the middle of it.

Thanks to Lori for the tip.

Friday
20Nov2009

Alyssa Bustamante charged as an adult

Missouri Girl Allegedly Killed 'to Know What It Felt Like':

I'm sure by now most of you have heard about 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante of Jefferson City, Missouri who allegedly killed her 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten. She allegedly killed Elizabeth by strangling her, stabbing her and cutting her throat just because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill.

Not only has she been charged as an adult but she's been indicted on first degree murder charges. And you've guessed correctly, I have no problem with this whatsoever.

Bustamante has been treated for depression, she's a cutter, and she attempted suicide at 13. After her arrest she even tried to cut herself with her own fingernails. 

And of course her lawyer trotted out the same old juvenile killer defense...

He argued Bustamante should remain in the juvenile system, where she could potentially be rehabilitated before being set free by age 21. Kurt Valentine warned that Bustamante would either kill herself or be assaulted and killed by others if she were placed in an adult jail cell or prison.

"We are throwing away the child and we are signing a death sentence for Alyssa," Valentine said. "She is not going to survive her time in the Cole County jail."

Tough shit pal. If she was tried as a juvenile she'd be released by 21 if convicted. In 6 years Elizabeth Olten will still be dead.

Will sentencing Bustamante to life bring Elizabeth back? No, but it it will balance the scales of justice.

Monday
19Oct2009

Odgren's jail talks obtained improperly

Court: Jail tapes obtained improperly in school killing:

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled that the jailhouse conversations between John Odgren and his family and fried were obtained improperly by prosecutors.

Odgren is accused of stabbing and killing James Alenson in the bathroom of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. The defense is saying that Odgren is insane because he has Asperger's. The prosecution say the tapes show that Odgren is far from insane.

Even though the court said that the conversations were obtained improperly they also said that this doesn't mean that the conversations can't be used at trial.

That decision has been left to a lower court.