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tazzygirl -> RE: 12 year old facing life in prison for shooting father's pregnant fiance (3/15/2010 5:12:01 PM)
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Wow. Didnt expect so many responses.
Ok. As far as more information, a google of his name will reveal many links.
Here is the info from the link the defense attorney created.
Eleven-year-old 5th grader Jordan Brown is charged as an adult for a double homicide he did not commit.
Pennsylvania state police conducted an inadequate investigation which ignored important leads; the media have convicted Jordan of the crime without any credible evidence.
Under a Pennsylvania law aimed at urban street gangs, Jordan faces the prospect of spending his entire life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jordan needs your help now!
http://www.jordanbrowntrust.org/
The behavior of Jordan and his step-sister while on their school bus and at school suggests neither child knew anything was wrong until police arrived at their school later in the morning.
Kenzie had received death threats from a former boyfriend in the months before her murder—a lead the police inexplicably have not taken seriously, relying instead on a dubious and unreliable statement from Jordan’s younger step-sister.
Jordan Brown is being railroaded by authorities and the media. There is no physical evidence connecting him to the crime. In fact, evidence suggests his youth-sized shotgun was not even the murder weapon as alleged by police.
When Jordan was departing for school, he saw a black truck parked outside their home. Jordan truthfully reported this to the police. However, the police said they didn’t believe it and accused him of sending them on a “wild goose chase.”
The police have consistently ignored evidence and statements which do not support their initial theory of the crime. Some of the investigators from the same police barracks have done this before, sending an innocent man to death row for many years. They have destroyed their interview notes and produced only selectively-edited “evidence.”
http://www.jordanbrowntrust.org/background.html
The above site has more info.
Seems some wish the child dead. Thanfully the Supreme Court has nixed that very idea. So, instead of wishing the death of a child.
Looking further into that site... and i am not stating if i believe it or not... i really dont know.
February 21, 2009 11-year-old Jordan Brown is charged as an adult with two counts of criminal homicide, a charge which carries a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
March 24, 2009 A preliminary hearing was held in which the prosecution failed to produce credible evidence linking Jordan to the crime; Lawrence County district attorney Bongivengo said he only had to show that a crime had been committed and that Jordan could have committed it.
May 6, 2009 Jordan pleaded Not Guilty at a formal arraignment hearing before the Lawrence County Common Pleas Court, Judge Dominick Motto presiding.
August 26, 2009 Arguing that the state has failed to produce sufficient evidence to support the charges against Jordan, his attorneys filed a writ of habeas corpus requesting Jordan’s release. They also requested that information illegally gathered by police be suppressed. The judge denied both motions.
(from the same link as above)
Now, further reading reveals this....
The other children--all in the home at the time of the murder--were unharmed, and Kenzie's 7-year-old daughter remembered hearing what sounded like a gunshot right before Jordan come to get her to walk her outside for them to go to school, according to news reports.
and it also contains this...
While officers investigated at the home they found Jordan's hunting shotgun (a gift from his father for Easter), along with a blanket in his room with a bullet-sized hole in it. The weapon smelled like it had been discharged recently, even though Chris said Jordan only used it when they went hunting, and the hole in the blanket had gunshot residue on it.
Conversations with Kenzie's young daughters during the investigation, along with Jordan's gun residue-stained clothing, produced information and evidence that assured them they were looking at a young boy for the murder, a boy who cold-bloodedly went on off to school when the deed was done, supposedly.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2786950/accused_boy_12_tried_as_adult_for_murdering.html?cat=25
This was an editorial piece, please keep that in mind.
And im still left shaking my head and not knowing what to think.
What i would love to know is.. where was the ex-boyfriend? That simple answer could, possibly, hold more information.
Did Jordan do it? Certainly looks like it. But are we sure? Sure enough to pass judgement and decide a 12 year old boy MUST die?
Im still not to that point.
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