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Victim’s kin: Pity for John Odgren ‘unthinkable’:

The parents of James Alenson have spoken out on the latest ploy to get their son’s killer out of jail early. Jon and Carman Alenson had this to say about John Odgren’s request to have his conviction lowered to second degree murder.

“Our family waited three and a half years for a trial. The trial was fair and a jury of John Odgren’s peers found him guilty of first-degree murder,” the Alensons said. “To seek a reduced verdict seems unfair, as our son does not get anything less than death. To hear that John Odgren’s imprisonment is unfair or cruel when he is the one who murdered our beloved son is unthinkable to us.”

Odgren’s scumbag attorney, Jonathan Shapiro, had this to say in his client’s defense…

“A first-degree murder verdict is reserved for those persons who are truly the most culpable and who are deserving of the most serious punishment the law provides,” Shapiro said. “We don’t think that justice was served in this case, when the crime was committed by a (then) 16-year-old mentally ill child.”

Mentally ill my ass. He had the mental faculties to plan this murder out almost to a T. The only thing that wasn’t premeditated was his victim. James Alenson was picked at random, other than that Odgren had the rest of the details completely planned out.

Let’s also not forget that Odgren slit the throat of James Alenson before plunging the long blade of the knife square into James Alenson’s heart.

He gave James Alenson no mercy so no mercy for his killer should be expected.

Odgren sentenced to life as Alenson’s family looks on:

Here is the first paragraph of the article about John Odgren’s sentencing…

Clutching a jacket like a security blanket and pressing his forehead against a table, special needs student John Odgren was sentenced today to mandatory life imprisonment without parole for killing fellow student James F.Alenson inside Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School on Jan. 19, 2007.

Here’s how I would have written it…

Clutching a jacket like a little bitch and pressing his forehead against the table like a moron homicidal maniac John Odgren was sentenced to life without parole for the burtal stabbing murder of random victim James F.Alenson inside Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School on Jan. 19, 2007.

And that’s why I’m not a journalist.

Odgren’s attorney, Jonathan Shapiro, called the sentence barbaric and uncivilized. As opposed to the stabbing of James Alenson through the heart which must have been gentle and polite.

Shapiro bitched about a minor, at the time of the crime, being sentenced to LWOP as being unconstitutional. Good luck with that and let me know how it turns out.

He’s also going to try the “teens do not have fully developed minds and aren’t responsible for their actions” bullshit as well.

If by the age of 16 if you don’t know that death is permanent and killing is wrong then your parents failed you and they should be in jail as well.

James Alenson’s father tearfully recalls last time he saw son before murder at L-S:

Monday was the first day of testimony in the trial of John Odgren. He being the sandwich of doom that is accused of stabbing James Alenson to death in a bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury High School.

The opening arguments were nothing spectacular. The prosecution argued that Odgren is a dangerous murderer who killed James Alenson at random. While the defense argued that Odgren’s Asperger’s caused him to kill which is of course idiotic.

James Alenson’s father testified on Monday however his testimony was more of the testimony of his son’s life and what was taken away from his family.

Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Kerry McHugh testified that the butcher knife found in the bathroom was one that matched one that was missing from a set of kitchen knives from the Odgren household.

Prosecutor Daniel Bennett stated that after James Alenson had died Odgren asked investigators “What do I get for manslaughter? Ten to 15?”

Odgren’s lawyer, Jonathan Shapiro, argued that Odgren’s Asperger’s made it impossible for him to plan a murder.

Mr. Shapiro may want to pick up a medical text. While I don’t think Asperger’s caused Odgren to kill Asperger’s patients are usually fixated on a certain subject. I think Odgren’s subject was murder.

More on this as details become available and as time allows.

Spitz: Murdered boy should be remembered:

This is a great article about how much of a tragedy it was when James Alenson was murdered in the bathroom of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School ‘allegedly’ by John Odgren.

So much potential lost because some kid wanted to commit the ‘perfect crime’.

Please also visit JamesAlenson.com and LincolnSudburyMemorialSchool.org.