News, Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Teen Who Walked on His Lawn. (March, crime)

[JD59]

BATAVIA, Ohio — A man who fatally shot a teenage neighbor because he walked on the man's carefully tended lawn was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

Charles Martin, 67, must serve 18 years before he can be considered for parole, Clermont County Common Pleas Judge William Walker ordered, adding that he would urge that Martin never be considered for parole.

The man was convicted last month of murder in the March 2006 shotgun killing of 15-year-old Larry Mugrage Jr., a high school freshman.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C293...5139%2C00.html

[robinhood]

What is this world coming to? I can't believe the jury thought he hadn't planned this, when he sat there waiting three hours with his gun, then calmly called 911 and said he killed a kid. If it had been an accident, I would think he would have been scared and tried to run or do something stupid that people do when they are in shock over a crime they just commited. For this man to have been so cool about the whole thing makes me think he thought about it beforehand.

[Jim280]

I wonder who will cut his lawn every 5 days now? He will be mowing prison grass for a long time. How stupid can some people be?