Re: Vitale murder suspect faces life in prison


"Bo Raxo ®" <forensics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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By 16 I was drinking beer and having sex. Obviously one can be "old
enough"
physically without being "old enough" in the eyes of the law.


By 16 I was drinking too, and having sex. But I didn't go out and kill
anybody, rob any gas stations, or trash any property.



I am talking about old enough in the eyes of the law. Nobody is saying he
should just go free. All I am saying is that life without parole for an
act committed by a minor is hypocritical: either 16 is too young to be
treated like an adult, or it isn't.

You want to decide a 16 year old can commit an act that writes off the
rest
of his life?


Depends upon the act, bo. If the kid had too much to drink and rammed his
car into somebody, heck, give him another chance to grow up. This was a
cold-blooded murder, premeditated.


Fine. Let them drink and have sex and sign contracts and just
treat them like adults.

Or decide they aren't adults, and thus shouldn't be written off entirely.

What, 25 to life with a possibility of parole isn't harsh enough?


Depends upon the circumstances, depends upon the crime. I predicted Lionel
Tate would be back in trouble within a year, and he didn't let me down.
Some kids don't have a conscience. I'm guessing this is one of 'em.

As for somebody killing one of your family, you don't know what that is like
becuase you don't have anybody that close to you. Yeah, you have friends,
good friends. But that isn't the same as having a kid or a spouse.
Somebody you just know you couldn't live without.



Cody Posey committed the cold blooded execution of a 13 year old, and
you're
just fine with him being released when he's 25. But Scott Dyleski should
never get out of prison. Because one was an abused kid, and - as far as
we
know - the other wasn't. Seems like a rather huge difference in treatment
for two young men who are both cold blooded killers.


Cody Posey killed for a reason. It might not have been a good reason. His
thinking might have been quite fucked up to say the least. But he had a
reason. He didn't kill some stranger, for no reason. It wasn't a thrill
kill. He had reasons. He killed people with whom he had a history.


td


Bo Raxo





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