Boy to stand trial for killing his principal

[terry78]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070726/ap_on_re_us/school_shooting

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

i don't know man, he should get jail time, but life seems a bit harsh. when i was getting bullied in middle school and elementary telling the teachers did'nt jack squat and if ya did it just made the bullying worse.

 

[Untilteld]

now that takes balls

 

[SoulManX]

Wow.Just.Wow

 

[Kelly]

i don't know man, he should get jail time, but life seems a bit harsh. when i was getting bullied in middle school and elementary telling the teachers did'nt jack squat and if ya did it just made the bullying worse.

First degree murder, tried as an adult........life is what a prosecutor goes for....

 

[amazingfantasy15]

He might be able to get off on a manslaughter charge, either way, he should be locked up for a long time. Bullying is a part of high school, take the crap while you have to, trusting in the knowledge that 10-20 years down the road, those morons will be working for you. What's a better revenge shooting the principal and spending your life in jail or hiring that bully 10-20 years down the road and then firing him just as his shotgun wife's about to spit out another kid.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

he deserves whatever he gets.

 

[huskerwebhead]

Oh please. Most people got bullied or picked on all through school. Bringing in guns for any reason was stupid. And he shot the guy three times...not once accidentally. Throw the book at him.

 

[POWdER-man]

The principal was a hero, not only did he slow him down and wrestled with the boy but he took away his weapon...saving maybe 2, 4 , 10 lives or even more......The boy took an innocent man's life..... for all we knew he was a great influence to hundreds or maybe even thousands of lives at that school...

Let the boy burn at the stake.....

 

[Knives122]

Oh please. Most people got bullied or picked on all through school. Bringing in guns for any reason was stupid. And he shot the guy three times...not once accidentally. Throw the book at him.

Do you mean........THE SCHOOL BOOK!!!!?

School humor...t:

 

[Kelly]

He might be able to get off on a manslaughter charge, either way, he should be locked up for a long time. Bullying is a part of high school, take the crap while you have to, trusting in the knowledge that 10-20 years down the road, those morons will be working for you. What's a better revenge shooting the principal and spending your life in jail or hiring that bully 10-20 years down the road and then firing him just as his shotgun wife's about to spit out another kid.

According to the article he was charged with first degree murder........that means premeditated. They could have gone for voluntary manslaughter I guess, and said there was provocation or something....maybe if he shot one of the kids that was bullying him you could go for that.........but if the article is correct, I don't guess the prosecutor thinks that the murder of the principal constitutes voluntary manslaughter. Then again in reading the article, it doesn't seem that his intent in bringing the gun to school was to specifically shoot the principal......so it is possible that if the public defender is smart he or she will go for a plea bargain and get it taken down to voluntary manslaughter...........

 

[PLAS]

I remember back in the old days, bullied students would play pranks on bullies by the last days of school

 

[Sloth7d]

One thing about school shootings that always urked me; Why don't the shooters ever shoot the bullies? Wasn't that their initial goal?

 

[PyroChamber]

One thing about school shootings that always urked me; Why don't the shooters ever shoot the bullies? Wasn't that their initial goal?

Yeah, but some of them get to the point where they feel it wasn't just the bullies but EVERYONE doing them wrong.

 

[cookiva]

One thing about school shootings that always urked me; Why don't the shooters ever shoot the bullies? Wasn't that their initial goal?

I know! You would think that its the case, but nooo, we never see that.

 

[Darkly Dexter]

I would've done the same thing with my principal

 

[Sloth7d]

Yeah, but some of them get to the point where they feel it wasn't just the bullies but EVERYONE doing them wrong.

It sounds like they're just cowards to me. Too afraid to shoot the ones who gave them that fear, so they shoot others.

 

[PyroChamber]

Sauk County District Attorney Pat Barrett has portrayed Hainstock as a selfish liar who reacts violently whenever adults tell him what to do.

If this part is true, then I don't feel sorry for him; sounds to me like he's just some punk that doesn't like to listen to other people.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

According to the article he was charged with first degree murder........that means premeditated. They could have gone for voluntary manslaughter I guess, and said there was provocation or something....maybe if he shot one of the kids that was bullying him you could go for that.........but if the article is correct, I don't guess the prosecutor thinks that the murder of the principal constitutes voluntary manslaughter. Then again in reading the article, it doesn't seem that his intent in bringing the gun to school was to specifically shoot the principal......so it is possible that if the public defender is smart he or she will go for a plea bargain and get it taken down to voluntary manslaughter...........

Well, the article probably just gave the highest/most sensational charge, I'm sure there are other charges. I was on a jury once and as I was listening to the details of the case I remembered reading about it in the paper, the article just said he'd be tried for first-degree murder, but in the actual case, the jury had "options" of what crime was committed, like manslaughter, second degree murder, etc..., in the end we convicted him of first degree murder because clearly it was.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

It sounds like they're just cowards to me. Too afraid to shoot the ones who gave them that fear, so they shoot others.

Or maybe they're just really bad shots. It's like whenever your hear of gang violence, it's always an innocent little kid that winds up dead, not the actual target.

 

[Sloth7d]

Or maybe they're just really bad shots. It's like whenever your hear of gang violence, it's always an innocent little kid that winds up dead, not the actual target.

Thats true too.

 

[Apollo]

these kids need to start bringing in those taser guns, t:

guns with bullets are so yesturday

 

[PalmerTheThing]

Send the guy in jail for 50 years.

 

[AhabTheArab]

idiot high schoolers....

 

[Dorian Gray]

In my opinion, he'll get off

These days it's always Poor criminal and to hell with the victim.