Judge threatens to throw out plea deal in high school student's murder

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be home so our bikini on I love my family that's all you got the second you know I have never in 23 years of approximately ever not accepted a sentence agreement between the parties because bargain for sentence by the parties but watching you sit there smile and laugh and shake your head like this was no big deal I'm very tempted to just say I'm not going to accept this sentence agreement we'll go to trial and if you're convicted of felony murder you'll go to prison for the rest of your life that means you'll die there that's what I attempted to do mr. bellar do you want me to accept the sentence agree the Honor may we approach yes [Music] lengthy discussion with the victim's mother as well as his grandparents and some family members they understand that obviously this is the defendant brutally murdered their son by shooting them in the back of the head he's shown absolutely no remorse he's written rap songs to other murderers about continuing killing and throughout the victim impact statements today he smiled and laughed throughout the entire proceeding however the complete family does want to move on with this they want to get some closure from this case they want to try and forgive this defendant in all of his actions for what they did and they are asking as well as the people anything further exposing Your Honor my client asked me to apologize to the court his smiling was in no way menace disrespectful either to the family to the victim or to this court my client is 17 years old he has some emotional problems and Franklin was scared and some people display fear by smiling he really meant no disrespect he does take this very seriously and what I started to tell the court before before my client interrupted me was that he did admit to the probation officer during the interview that he was involved that he did cause the death of the young young man who was never intentional he never intended to hurt anybody and I think he does feel bad about it at his age and in his condition he may not be able to express it as well as some other defendants might but he does feel bad about it anything else mr. Wright all right only because as mr. bell has just said this is the wish of the victim's family wishes the prosecutor and the bargain for sentence between all the parties I will

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Channel: MLive

Views: 2,410,131

Rating: 4.6791859 out of 5

Keywords: michigan, ann arbor, sentence, murder, court, auth-melaniemaxwell-auth, mlive, plea deal, high school student's murder, judge, court room

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Length: 2min 50sec (170 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 24 2017

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