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Teen facing 'sanity panel' in manslaughter
Published Wednesday, July 22, 2009
VIDALIA — It could be several months before it is known if the Ferriday teen accused of killing his step-grandfather last August will face trial as an adult, Assistant District Attorney Ann Siddall said.
The suspect’s attorney requested the suspect be psychologically evaluated in May, Siddall said.
“This is basically the juvenile equivalent of a sanity panel,” Siddall said. “It can take several months for it to be completed.”
The suspect’s name was not released because of his age at the time of the killing, 14.
Once the court receives the report, that will be the first step to determining if he should be tried as a juvenile or an adult, Siddall said.
If the case is transferred to adult court, Siddall said it would likely be bound over to a grand jury.
The teen is currently charged with manslaughter, but the grand jury has the ability to upgrade the charges to second-degree murder.
The case began Aug. 17, 2008, when Ferriday police arrived at 320 Iowa St., to find 42-year-old Frank Conner with a single stab wound to the chest.
After he was transported to Riverland Medical Center, Conner was pronounced dead.
At the time, police said Conner had been involved in a verbal altercation with his step-grandson, the suspect.
The suspect and another person were reportedly yelling curse words at each other in the front yard, and Conner told the suspect to come into the house, police said.
When the suspect did not want to come in, he and Conner reportedly became involved in an argument and the teen went into the kitchen and retrieved a knife before allegedly stabbing Conner, police said.
No one else was involved in the incident, police said.
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Posted by natashakubelikov (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)
He,s not insane,he,s just mean. If they let him go he,ll do it again.
Posted by stateofnatchez (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 1:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
He will get some time in a mental facility, get out and then come after someone else.
What a waste of taxpayer money.
Posted by juju (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 2:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
No, he'll probably get one of those 'mental checks'in the mail every month.
Posted by pbnj (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 4:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
He'd be crazy to turn that down. Yuk Yuk Yuk
Posted by drinthehouse (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 5:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It's really sad to think that you can kill a person and possibly get away with it. Yes, this was a child, but one who acted in a corrupt and violent way when things did not go the way he anticipated they should.
I am not the judge nor jury, but I would remember that he wan't too insane to pick up a knife and lunge it into another living, breathing human being...further, he wasn't too insane to yell out his profanity. (But will justice be done-we all know the answer to that!
Posted by erohed (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 8:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Many a step-child become mind warped, because the real parent, tends to side with it's child (right or wrong). And, it's the step-parent that suffers. Please, teach your child(ern) morals, for heavens sake.
Posted by beammeupscotty (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 8:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What concerns me most is this adult is already back on the street. If he wins the sanity plea it gives him a free ticket to do it whenever he chooses.
Posted by gottabehappy (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 8:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
murder is murder, no matter who committed it.
Posted by Yeahuhuh (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 9:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Of all the folks that enter into a group whine for justice in a case like this, I think what they really want is punishment and something rhetorical to assert. I think that is because unlike criminals or the criminally insane, the average person doesn't do a crime if they think there will be trouble from it down the road.
But for the criminally insane, a bit of abuse and the threat of more abuse down the road can make them want to abuse more. So you have to incarcerate em forever if you punish them as if they were normal. Sometimes that is the best they can expect to be locked up. But most civilized folks would like to believe that sometimes, a 14 year old with a bad past who acts out a crime does not have to be a ward of the state forever, so they at least give it a try.
Posted by kpage1 (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 11:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Yeah sounds like a fellow student in my Philosophy class. Yeah, are you in my PHI class?
Posted by Yeahuhuh (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 12:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
No kpage but I am glad to hear somebody else sounds as crazy as me.
Posted by troypage (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 2:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Way to retaliate Yeahuhuh !
Posted by a4onthea6 (anonymous) on July 22, 2009 at 10:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
So true drinthehouse. I'm not judge, jury or no where near perfect either but I can only wonder where we'd be as a society if we sat "crazy" people in (let's call it) a "fun chair" and flipped the switch. As gottabehappy put it....murder is murder.
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