Boy, 16, cuffed after posting selfie with body of kid he allegedly killed A western Pennsylvania teenager has been charged with homicide and firearms offenses after he uploaded an image to the Snapchat messaging service of himself posing with the dead body of a classmate he allegedly shot and killed. According to a report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Reuters, and others, 16-year-old Maxwell …
I'll lay odds his lawyer tries to get the court to exclude that photo as it was supposed be deleted....
And it's good he's being tried as an adult... as a minor he would have a "get out of jail, free" card when turns 21. *That is, if the jury finds him guilty.... we have to remember that he's innocent until proven guilty.
Edit: * Added disclaimer.
"...exclude that photo as it was supposed be deleted..."
Mmmm.... might have had a chance if the Police had gotten the photo from SnapChat (except that SnapChat has already admitted that there were ways for LEOs to get at the photos). In this case, however, the *recipient* of the picture saved the photo. Hence there is no hanky-panky on the part of either the LEOs or SnapChat.
Although I can see SnapChat being subsequently sued by the defendant for allowing a hole in their software by which the recipient could save the photo.
Disclaimer: I am neither a Lawyer nor an American, so my opinions on US laws are probably badly informed.
The kid who got the SnapChat message did a screenshot and as a side note, SnapChat even notifies the sender that a screenshot of the photo was done so he can't say he didn't know what happened to it. [It's nice to see the old aphorism still holds: More criminals talk their way into prison....]
We don't know how that confession was obtained - could have had his dick in a vice (metaphorically speaking, although this IS America…) and, as nobody's yet mentioned it, the kid's black. US LEOs seem to have a penchant for attempting to stitch up blacks (when they're not murdering them, of course).
Perhaps he IS guilty - or, perhaps, this is Zimmerman in reverse; why guy definitely shoots black kid and walks, forensics state that this black kid DID NOT kill his mate (ethnicity unknown), but I have no faith in him,getting a fair trial, for the same reasons that Trayvon Martin's family didn't get justice - US fuzz are inherently racist.
I read a statistic somewhere (and I'll find out where when I'm more alive) that blacks make up 80% of death row inmates, but blacks aren't responsible for 80% of capital offences.
Am I saying our plod ain't racist cunts - of COURSE I'm not, but we don't legally murder people here anymore.
If the victim was white, there's no fucking chance in hades this kid's gonna get a fair trial. Surprised the fuzz who arrested him didn't shoot him on sight, save the expense of going to court.
Go on then, downvote away…
In March 2005, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty for those who had committed their crimes at under 18 years of age was cruel and unusual punishment and hence barred by the Constitution.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/juveniles-and-death-penalty
No, because shooting someone in the face isnt cruel or unusual at all.
The best thing we can do is firstly, lock *it up for life, neuter it (just in case!) then explain that being told to "toss the salad" does not mean it has a cushy job in the kitchen.
Little scuzz bucket whom is not fit to breath the same air as the rest of us in civilised society.
*no apologies for de-humanising it. It wasn't human to start with. It is a feral animal. Nothing more, nothing less.
Happy 18th birthday son!
You can now legally get married, gamble, drink alcohol and - best of all - be revenge-murdered by the state.
Legal drinking age1 is 21 in the US. But 18's the age at which you can legally buy tobacco products, so there's that.
1Actually, it's the age at which you can legally purchase alcohol or possess it in public. And even that's a hodgepodge of state laws passed under the threat of losing part of their Federal highway funding.
and now, thanks to social media, people who commit violence for attention, will see another of their ilk getting mention he'd never receive had he been a decent bloke.
Lots o' sickos out there. Not all of them find a politically correct reason to attach their violent tendencies to.
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