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Old 10-01-2007, 07:48 PM   #86
pope04
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Originally Posted by Slava View Post
In all honesty this kid is going to get 15 years or so and be out in 10. He's 19...so he'll be missing arguably the best ten years of his life...a pretty stiff punishment when you consider this. I know that the family will suffer long after this, and I know that no sentence is ever adequate in some peoples minds. But at the same time, unless it can be shown that this was pre-meditated in any way or something similar then it was a moment of sheer stupidity by a teenager in some ways.

This is a heinous act, and I don't mean to undermine that fact.
And the victim? His best years were ahead of him, too.
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