Thursday, January 20, 2011

Arizona Shooting

Jared Lee Loughner is a suspect in a Arizona shooting.  Mr. Loughner is accused of killing 6 people including a nine year old girl, and a federal judge, wounding 13 including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who remains hospitalized. He remains innocent until proven guilty, a jury will decide if he should be spared the death penalty because of his mental state. Judy Clarke his attorney is known for trying to keep her clients from getting the death penalty. Clarke is trying to get the case moved to another state, because it would be hard to get a fair jury that doesn't know anything about the case. Clarke is also digging up anything from his past that makes him look insane. If the jury decides that he is insane, then he wont get the death penalty because the supreme court has long held that the insane may not be executed. They just have to figure out if the crime was premeditated because if so then it is the opposite of insane.

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