Lawrence King's Alleged Killer Pleads "Not Guilty"

Not guilty. That is the plea of Brandon McInerey, the 15-year-old who will stand trial for the fatal shooting of 15-year-old openly gay classmate Lawrence King. McInerey is accused of shooting King twice in the head at point-blank range during class and prosecutors say that is grounds for a lying-in-wait charge, reports the Ventura County Star.

"McInerney’s lawyers, Scott Wippert and Robyn Bramson, filed a legal motion to dismiss the special circumstance of lying in wait that was tacked onto the felony criminal charges by prosecutors after a three-day preliminary hearing. Attaching a lying in wait special circumstance to a murder charge in a juvenile case, by law, automatically transfers the case to adult court. Wippert and Bramson allege that the district attorney is engaging in prosecutorial vindictiveness by filing the special circumstance.[Deputy District Attorney Maeve] Fox Fox argued Thursday that the defense lawyers’ legal maneuvering is moot because state courts have already decided the issue."

McInerney is being tried as an adult with first degree murder and a hate crime for the February 2008 murder of his classmate, who was biracial, openly gay and sometimes wore makeup and dresses to school. A three-day preliminary hearing last month decided McInerney would stand trial. McInerey has faces 53 years behind bars. The state also alleges McInerey, who was 14-years-old at the time, had close ties to white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

The trial is set for Dec. 1.

Comments

[CC d'Afrique du Sud]

can't help but feel sorry for him, clearly does not have a conscience...

so the case is going to drag on and on? don't want to be him right now.

[FQ]

this story is just horrible

'it sickens me each time i hear about it

[Jinca]

I get mad when I hear people say "well that gay kid shouldn't have hit on him" I am like yeah maybe not but then those little straight kids are lucky little girls don't come to school with guns or they'd all get shot up too. NOBODY should have died over this.

The kid who died clearly was acting out and should have been told to leave the other kid alone but he didn't seem to know better, the shooter has ruined his life and the lives of both families for a decision he made as a child and that is sad too really.

[CC d'Afrique du Sud]

something interesting to read...

http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=southafrica&id=2250

i might get some flack for this one but hey, here goes. i think you can still look feminine without wearing a dress. non?

oui!

[Isis]

I agree with Jinca, this is Sad no matter how you look at it. Two young lives destroyed in different ways.

[Wil Lavender]

To me to plea not guilty is saying to me even though everyone saw me it wasn't me. Regardless if he was a object of a crush does not give him or anyone the right to do what he has done. It would not surprise me before this is all over his lawyers will try the insanity plea.