GUILTY MT - Diren Dede, 17, shot to death, Missoula, 27 April 2014

[OkieGranny]

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/st...utm_medium=['twitter']&utm_source=['dlvr.it']

Defense lawyers presented less than two days of testimony after calling police officers and two expert witnesses. One attempted to discredit the police investigation in the case, and another spoke of how the brain shuts down when under stress...

District Court Judge Ed McLean told jurors that rebuttal testimony will take place Monday afternoon. Closing arguments will begin Tuesday and jurors can expect to begin deliberations in the afternoon, he said.

 

[ZooSleuth]

Jury has been deliberating for a couple hours now...

 

[ZooSleuth]

Update: Right now the jury is asking the judge a question in closed chambers with both prosecutors and defense present.

 

[ZooSleuth]

Jury out for the day after close to 5 hours of deliberations. Deliberations resume @ 8:30 tomorrow morning.

 

[ZooSleuth]

Verdict is in: GUILTY of Deliberate Homicide!

http://missoulian.com/news/local/ma...cle_18660484-56d2-5b60-80d5-6b4f81ad4e15.html

A jury of eight women and four men found Markus Kaarma guilty Wednesday of deliberate homicide in the April shooting death of Diren Dede, following more than eight hours of deliberation.

Kaarma, 30, was charged with deliberate homicide following the April 27 incident.

Sentencing is set for Feb. 11, 2015. However, Dede's parents will address the court at 10 a.m. Thursday, providing their thoughts on the case and, likely, the sentence.

Under Montana law, sentencing guidelines for deliberate homicide are "not less than 10 years and not more than 100."

 

[BigSkyy]

Thank goodness. Many thanks to the jury for taking their time and coming to this conclusion. My sincere sympathy to the Dede family, the host family and all the kids who went to school with Diren at Big Sky High School

 

[OkieGranny]

http://ravallirepublic.com/news/sta...51d9-9220-2a6b5ab1d0d8.html?comment_form=true

Tristan Staber, who turned 19 in January, received a three-year deferment of sentence. Among the 35 conditions Judge Ed McLean imposed are requirements that he complete a treatment program at Share House in Missoula and pay $2,008 in fines, fees and restitution.

Staber pleaded guilty in October to burglary, a felony, and misdemeanor trespass to vehicles for acting as the lookout while 16-year-old Mykel Martin entered unlocked cars and garages in Kaarma’s Grant Creek neighborhood last April.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/ma...cle_950b8353-1172-50aa-abec-3ec8705e1437.html

Markus Kaarma was sentenced to 70 years in prison Thursday morning for the murder of Diren Dede, a 17-year-old German exchange student who Kaarma fatally shot in his Grant Creek garage last spring.

 

[zwiebel]

Interestingly, if Kaarma had been convicted in Germany where the victim was from, he'd have got a 'life' sentence of 15 years. There's a longer sentence of around 20 years for some murders, but that's rarely imposed.

The murder rate in Germany is fairly low though. So perhaps light sentences work? Unlike its burglary rate, which reached has reached its highest level for 15 years and grown to epidemic proportions in certain cities because it is largely ignored and culprits are very rarely caught.

http://www.thelocal.de/20140604/germanys-most-dangerous-and-safest-cities-crime-rates