I hope mine is good tonight. Got a basketball game to play.
"Montana homeowner sentenced in shooting" Associated Press February 13, 2015
MISSOULA, Mont. — A Montana homeowner was sentenced Thursday to 70 years in prison, with no parole for at least 20 years, in the shotgun killing of a German exchange student who was trespassing in his garage.
District Judge McLean said Markus Kaarma was hunting, not safeguarding his home when he shot 17-year-old Diren Dede early one April morning. ‘‘Here you have a 12-gauge shotgun, not to protect your family but to go after someone,’’ the judge told Kaarma. ‘‘And go after someone you did.’’
A Missoula jury convicted Kaarma, 30, of deliberate homicide in the case that caused an outcry in Germany and brought scrutiny to Montana’s law allowing the use of deadly force in some situations to protect home and family....
He shot Dede, who was unarmed, after being alerted by motion sensors in his garage. Witnesses said Kaarma fired at the teen four times, striking him twice.
Dede’s father, Celal, said of the sentence: ‘‘It is justice. I am not happy. My son is dead.” He and his wife attended the entire trial, and he flew back from Germany for Thursday’s hearing,
Prosecutors argued Kaarma was intent on luring an intruder into his garage after it was burglarized at least once in the weeks before the shooting.
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Related: Dressing Down in Montana
All I need is a shirt, some shorts, a pair of socks and a pair of shorts.
