Lawyers spar over role of Asperger’s in school slaying
March 7th, 2008
From the Boston Globe, Associated Press:
The attorney for 17-year-old John Odgren asked a judge to throw out a first-degree murder indictment against his client, arguing that a prosecutor had cut off a grand juror’s questioning about Odgren’s Asperger’s syndrome.
Odgren has been accused of using a 14-inch kitchen knife to fatally stab another student through the heart at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts.
Attorney Jonathan Shapiro maintained that Odgren’s syndrome would make it impossible for him to have planning the killing. (Odgren at left, above, with Shapiro.)


