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John Odgren Receives Life In Prison Without Parole for Massachusetts Murder of Schoolmate

By Altman & Altman

Middlesex Superior Court Judge S. Jane Haggerty has sentenced John Odgren to life in prison without parole. Yesterday, a jury convicted the 19-year-old, who has Asperger?s syndrome and a history of mental illness, of Massachusetts first-degree murder. The Princeton teenager fatally stabbed Lincoln-Sudbury 15-year-old James Alenson in 2007. The two boys teens didn?t know each other but they happened end up in the high school bathroom at the same time. Odgren?s Boston criminal defense team had mounted an insanity defense, claiming that paranoia, depression, Asperger?s, and the fear of the number 19 are what compelled Odgren to attack the high school freshman. Now, his homicide lawyer is arguing that because Odgren was a juvenile when he stabbed Alenson, the life sentence he received should come with the possibility of parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on May 01, 2010 (boomark / email).