Man who killed 3 family members at Sam Donaldson's ranch freed

[Facetious]

At fourteen years old, many of us were just getting our first taste of high school. We began to see the opposite sex as having genitals rather than cooties and finding locker room situations a little more than awkward. It is at this point in our life that parental guidance is needed yet rebelled against most. Kids sneak out, kids act out, kids make out, and some kids even take out guns to shoot their families.

Unfortunately for Paul Posey, the latter was the case for his son, Cody.

On June 5, 2004, after his father slapped him, Cody Posey marched out to a barn on the family’s property where he retrieved a .38 caliber revolver, marched back into the house, and shot his stepmother in the head. Tyrone did not see it coming, what with her sitting on the couch and him sneaking up behind her and all.

At the sound of the gunshot, Paul and stepdaughter Marilea ran to the house to see what was going on. Upon walking through the door, Cody shot his father in the head, and seeing Marilea walking up behind his father, he shot her as well. His stepsister’s body was writhing about on the ground so he shot her in the head a second time so “she wouldn’t go tell or nothing.”

Cody then proceeded to obtain a backhoe which he used to carry the bodies
to a manure pit where they were buried.

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Time Served in F-O-U-R years?. . . . ya think?

 

[meesterperfect]

four years in the hole?
i guess he was not tried as an adult.

 

[ForumModeregulator]

held till age 21...to me though this case although very gruesome, seems like a really legitimate case for the juvenile and his rehabilitation ...

Nearly 40 people were called to testify during the trial to support the juvenile's long history of abuse from the parents...

From an article,

"Posey's defense called 40 witnesses, including ranch hands who claimed they witnessed years of physical and psychological abuse by Posey's father.

Testifying in his defense, Posey described the night before the shootings.

His father and stepmother summoned him to the master bedroom and tried to force him to have sex with his stepmother, he testified. When Posey refused, his father burned him with a heated metal rod, he testified."

but in the end, this guy could just be some murderous mastermind that has tricked us all...

 

[meesterperfect]

held till age 21...to me though this case although very gruesome, seems like a really legitimate case for the juvenile and his rehabilitation ...

Nearly 40 people were called to testify during the trial to support the juvenile's long history of abuse from the parents...

From an article,

"Posey's defense called 40 witnesses, including ranch hands who claimed they witnessed years of physical and psychological abuse by Posey's father.

Testifying in his defense, Posey described the night before the shootings.

His father and stepmother summoned him to the master bedroom and tried to force him to have sex with his stepmother, he testified. When Posey refused, his father burned him with a heated metal rod, he testified."

but in the end, this guy could just be some murderous mastermind that has tricked us all...

wow.

but still, the stepsister.
but if he was that abused and people think he is now no danger to others.....set him free.

 

[Facetious]

i guess he was not tried as an adult.

An adult would:

Cody then proceeded to obtain a backhoe which he used to carry the bodies
to a manure pit where they were buried.

A broken system . . . . of justice? I think so.

Yep, the stepsister too . . . . :rides off into the sunset:

 

[ForumModeregulator]

An adult would:


A broken system . . . . of justice? I think so.

Yep, the stepsister too . . . . :rides off into the sunset:

remember he was 14 years old... I still think the 4 years was too short of a sentence. His attempt to cover bury the bodies just truly shows how immature he was. For a skilled killer would have thought of a much more efficient manner to dispose to evade detection. but in the end, the criminal justice system is making an effort to rehabilitate a criminal. In the case of juveniles, a great emphasis has ALWAYS been to try and rehab a juvenile offender. Although his actions were atrocious, and in my mind killing should never be an option, he was a juvenile and was treated appropriately by the system as one. Its not like these procedures or laws are something new. Juveniles have always been treated as such, and this is no exception.

 

[vodkazvictim]

That's a 4 month sentence and 2 weeks community service here in the UK...

 

[Ulysses31]

Does anyone know what happened about the $600 million lawsuit?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uit-blames-Sony-game-teen-killing-family.html