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Judge Refuses To Remove Young Shooter From Adult Incarceration
“This is someone who has never been in trouble before. This is not someone who has a history of assaulting kids, or any other negative contact with his peers. This one isolated incident is all that we are looking at here today,” Attorney, Paulette Loftin, argued during his hearing Monday to return his client to Juvenile Facility.
The Oxford High School shooter was moved from a Juvenile facility to an adult facility and on Monday’ his attorney argued he should be returned to a Juvenile facility. But the words of Paulette Loftin, the defendant's attorney sound a little hollow to me.
“This is someone who has never been in trouble before.” Yes, true, but he gunned down peers and killed four of them.
“This is not someone who has a history of assaulting kids, or any other negative contact with his peers.” Yes, however, he did assault and kill four peers in one incident. Is this not enough?
“This one isolated incident is all that we are looking at here today,” Again, someone who that God has not had more opportunity to premeditatedly kill peers. Who knows how many others could have died at his hands.
In spite of their arguments (which meet with deaf ears to this writer), the judge did not buy their goods.
