The Michael Sandy murder trial came to n unspectacular end yesterday.
The last accused killer, Ilya Shurov, copped a guilty plea over 2006’s fatal attack on Sandy, who set out that fateful night looking for a hook-up.
Via NY Times:
The defendant, Ilya Shurov, 21, agreed to serve 17 1/2 years in prison. In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges of felony murder as a hate crime, which could have meant a life sentence.
“If there was no life sentence,” said a defense lawyer, Hermann P. Walz, “we would have rolled the dice.”
Hopefully Sandy’s parents can rest easy at night knowing their son’s killers are sleeping unsoundly in prison.
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Hello, HRC? I’m calling about Michael Sandy. Y’know, his life seems pretty worthless, and I was wondering where you’ve been… what’s that? In Jena? Yes, the Jena-6, but nobody was actually murdered there, but… put me on hold? Yes, I’ll hold. (-appear, every time you are near, just like me, they long to be, close to you… On the day that you were born, the angels got together, and decided to create a dream come true, so they sprinkled gold dust in your-) Okay, I give up. -click-