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Lawyers spar over role of Asperger’s in school slaying

March 7th, 2008

John Odgrfen, Jonathan Shapiro, Judge Asacc Borenstein, asperger’s syndrome, disability, newsFrom 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.)

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