Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Ind. Girl (IMHO this is the way it should

be done... No show trials just to get the DP...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Child-Slain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

March 24, 2006
Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Ind. Girl
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 12:31 p.m. ET

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (AP) -- A man pleaded guilty Friday to molesting and killing a 10-year-old girl whose body was found in a creek 15 miles from her southern Indiana home.

Under the plea deal, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty against Anthony Ray Stockelman, 39, of Seymour. Jackson County Prosecutor Stephen Pierson said he would request a sentence of life in prison without parole at his sentencing hearing April 17.

Pierson said the former factory worker abducted, molested and killed Katlyn Collman, who lived in Crothersville. The fourth-grader's body was found five days later, on Jan. 30, 2005.

...more at link...

how bad a prosecutor they have there - he might not have pled.


I fully expected him to lose - unless he got someone else to try the case for him.

to you from any kind of murder?

B - Even if the person is guilty of a horrible crime like this man, why do a very expensive trial just to get the DP. Plea and life without parole....

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