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In a follow-up to the previous post I made on this subject, the second teen who killed a 12 year old white girl was released after being charged with "obstruction":
By way of background, facebook pictures linked the girl to the two teens. She was last seen riding her bike near their house and her bike was found in their basement along with other stolen bike parts and her body was in their garbage bin. Oh, they had her backpack too. The Camden County prosecutor (a heavy minority district) made a deal with the second brother and gave him a 17 year sentence with the possibility of parole after 85 percent served. He let the other brother go today. The prosecutor said he did not have enough evidence to take either teen to trial. This is 1000 X worse than the Travon Martin case, IMO.
First time I have even heard of this which doesn't surprise me. Girl was wrong race and so were the suspects. Media couldn't hype it up and get people all worked up etc...17 years for killing a child...disgusting. No doubt within a year of being out he will murder someone else and get a life sentence.Should have just given the girls father a pistol and a bullet and told him he had 5 minutes alone with this POS.
He wasn't charged with murder because at fifteen, a juvenile murder conviction carries a sentence much less than 17 years. Charging a fifteen-year-old who has developmental issues as an adult is a wide, gaping doorway to an appeal. The Supreme Court has ruled that life imprisonment in such a case is cruel and unusual. The prosecutors worked within the law (that's what civilized nations do, by the way) to get the murderer a significant sentence and also in a setting where the teen will receive therapy that will hopefully result in his not repeating such a terrible crime.
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