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Massachusetts Jury Being Selected In High School Murder Case

By Altman & Altman

Last week, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog spent the week discussing the issue of bullying and the over-reactive indictments paraded before a hungry audience by a local district attorney. Today, we return to high school. This time it is another high school though. The academic institution involved this time is the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Yesterday, jury selection began in Woburn for the trial of John O., (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) who stands accused of stabbing a 15-year-old youth to death at the school. The Defendant was 16-years-old at the time. The stabbing took place inside a high school bathroom in 2007. The defense is not the typical ?It wasn?t me? or, ?It was self-defense?. The defense is apparently that of diminished capacity...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).