10/09/14

Today, in class we watched another case study. I thought it was an interesting case, because it had to do with a 12 year old boy killing a 6 year old girl very violently. The big question was if it should be dealt with in juvenile court or in actual court that usually deals with people that are 18 and above. They decided not to put him on trial in juvenile court because of the degree of the murder. During the case, the biggest question was if this murder was involuntary man slaughter or in fact, first degree murder. The boy claimed that him and the girl were wrestling and that he was trying out wrestling moves that he had seen on tv. His story was questionable, because he never mentioned any of that in his original statement that he gave right after the girl got hurt and the consistency of the injuries on the girls body could not have happened, unless he actually tried to hurt her. She had 40 different blunt trauma injuries which said that this must have been a very violent beating. I definitely think that his trial went well, except the fact that his mother did not take the plea bargain the first time around.