CO: Life imitates bad TV legal shows
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 9:06 pm
In Colorado Springs, a 14-year-old is charged with fatally shooting his 9-year-old brother and shooting and stabbing his mother.
A public hearing was held to determine if he should be certified for trial as an adult.
I changed the order of the quotes for dramatic effect.
- Jim
A public hearing was held to determine if he should be certified for trial as an adult.
Prosecutors contend [defendant] Gudino acted willfully when he picked the lock on a gun cabinet with toothpicks, loaded a .22-caliber rifle, shot his brother in his bed then wounded his mother in the shoulder and stabbed her with a knife and scissors.
[Expert witness shrink] Hardy said Gudino gave him a step-by-step account of what happened.
The boy told Hardy he had trouble sleeping, heard noises and was concerned there was a ghost in the house. He left his bed and tried to sleep on a couch, but saw two shadowy figures that scared him before he went to sleep.
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Hardy said Gudino has parasomnia and thought he was shooting at ghosts.
Hardy interviewed the boy twice and does not believe he had sufficient criminal intent to support murder charges.
"If somebody is in a narcoleptic sleepwalking mode, as rare as that might be, they're not conscious, even though they can do some fairly complex behavior," Hardy said.
I changed the order of the quotes for dramatic effect.
- Jim