Levi Aron, Suspected Child Killer, Will Be Tried In Brooklyn

Accused killer Levi Aron (left, AP) and victim Leiby Kletzky (right)

An appeals court has decided that Levi Aron, accused of killing and chopping up a young Hasidic boy, will face trial in Brooklyn, where the boy went missing and was killed, and not in Suffolk County or the Bronx, where his lawyers say he might have had a fair shot.

"Current defense counsel’s attempts to correct inaccurate information and to redirect the public to seek justice through trial instead of vengeance have been ignored," Jennifer McCann, Aron’s lawyer, argued in court to no avail. The Appellate Division ruled that the trial should stay in Brooklyn after the DA there pointed out that, among other reasons, "there are nearly 500,000 people eligible for jury duty in Brooklyn, and that there are far fewer Jews in Suffolk and Bronx Counties."

Aron is accused of kidnapping, killing and carving up 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky earlier this summer. Though he has entered a plea of not guilty in court, he wrote a chilling confession for the police when he was initially arrested. His lawyer has since pointed out that, "he's obviously crazy."

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By Garth Johnston in News on November 8, 2011 9:30 AM

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FU Boy

"to redirect the public to seek justice through trial instead of vengeance have been ignored,"

Wait, we can skip the trial and just to go to the mass beating? Great!

Oh, wait, you're just whining because it's less likely you'll get this guy off? Screw you.

yttrx

How is punishing a raging paranoid schizophrenic going to do anything for anyone? Others who are violently insane will not see this as any sort of lesson (theyre not capable of it), and the man himself will endure *expensive* and pointless pain and suffering... for what.. the good feelings of a psychopathic population?

He needs to be locked up in a mental hospital for the rest of his life, where he can't harm anyone; but punishment in this case absolutely serves no one and nothing.

dollarmenu

Set the guy free in Brooklyn and turn the cameras on. It'll be like The Running Man.

FU Boy

"Who loves you and who do you love?"

UnrepentantFenian

Trust me, Levi; it ain't just the jews who want you thrown into a dark hole for the rest of your life.

yttrx

I'd like every single person who's into the philosophy of "vengance justice" to be locked in cages to be poked and shat upon by the more articulate, intelligent population.