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Oxnard teen accepts plea deal in killing of gay schoolmate
By Zeke Barlow - Ventura County Star - 11/22/2011
Nearly four years after Brandon McInerney fatally shot a classmate in an Oxnard schoolroom, the case reached its conclusion Monday with a plea deal in which the 17-year-old will serve nearly 25 years behind bars.
McInerney pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter with use of a firearm in the fatal shooting of Larry King, 15. The hearing that capped years of legal jousting and a previous nine-week trial that ended in a mistrial when jurors were torn over the juvenile being tried as an adult.
The sentence for the murder charge will be waived and McInerney will accept a 21-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter at a Dec. 19 hearing. He will not get credit for the nearly four years he already has served or be eligible for parole, which will make him 38 years old when he gets out of prison. He will transfer from juvenile hall to a state prison after he turns 18 in January.
Though the Ventura County District Attorney's office had been steadfast in its commitment to retry McInerney as an adult on charges of first-degree murder, officials eventually acquiesced, with the knowledge another jury also could be sympathetic to McInerney's age.
"We recognize the delicate nature of the case and the fact that both the victim and the shooter were young teens," said Chief Deputy District Attorney Mike Frawley. ''This really tugged powerfully on people."
That McInerney had just turned 14 when he shot King in the back of the head was a theme throughout the defense's arguments during the emotional trial. Many jurors have spoken out against the case being held in adult court, and two were in the courtroom Monday wearing ''Save Brandon" bracelets.
McInerney's lawyer had fought hard to keep the case in juvenile court.
"We are very pleased and happy that we were finally able to come to this agreement and at the same time it hurts because we said all along that he should not have been tried as an adult," his lawyer, Scott Wippert said.
During Monday's hearing, McInerney's mother, Kendra, wept as Brandon -- wearing a standard-issue blue jump suit and ankle shackles -- pleaded guilty to the charges in a voice that has grown deeper since he was first arrested on Feb. 12, 2008.
His victim, King, 15, had been wearing women's high-heeled boots and makeup to school in the weeks leading up to the shooting, and he had begun telling friends he was gay. Teachers testified King was becoming increasingly antagonistic and the administration was doing little to control him. Others said he was merely expressing his sexuality and was being bullied for it.
King had just told another student that he was changing his name to Leticia when McInerney shot him twice in the head.
The defense argued King harassed McInerney and pushed him to the edge. The prosecution said McInerney was a violent white supremacist who hated gays and plotted the murder.
On Monday, Larry's dad, Greg King, said he stood by the district attorney's decision but was upset at the jurors who during the trial had said they would be able to reach a verdict independent of McInerney's age, and didn't.
"If they had a problem with that, they should have told the judge," he said. ''I honestly believe that Brandon McInerney is a murderer who executed my son."
But he said another trial could result in a similar hung jury, and the previous trial was extremely hard on him and his family who drove to Chatsworth every day. The trial was held outside Ventura County because of intense media coverage."That nine weeks in the Chatsworth courtroom was physically, emotionally and financially draining," he said. ''Twenty-one years is a long time and we are satisfied that justice has been done."
Wippert always argued McInerney was guilty of voluntary manslaughter and he felt the agreement was a win.
"I think it's an appropriate sentence given all the circumstances and the evidence that came out in the trial," he said.
People around the world were interested in the trial involving the shooting at E.O. Green School, which carried elements of gay rights, white supremacy, tolerance and juvenile justice.
"It's just such a tragedy -- I mean, two lives lost, in effect," said Steven Elson, CEO of Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families. King stayed in the children's center for abused, neglected and troubled teens several months before the shooting.
Monday's plea deal may bring some closure to families and everyone who cared about one or both of the boys, Elson said. It also avoids the cost of another trial, including the emotional toll, he said.
"Frankly, I'm happy that it's over. I think it's about healing now," said Jay Smith, former executive director of the now-closed Rainbow Alliance, an advocacy group for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
"I never thought he (McInerney) should spend the rest of his life in prison," Smith said. ''But there needed to be a fair middle ground, and I think this is a good idea."
Smith said he was torn like a lot of people between the crime McInerney committed and his age at the time.
"My sense was he was still a child. He was a child committing an adult act," he said. ''But weighing his background and the horrible home life that he had, I believe that they are reasons that 50 years to life seemed extremely excessive."
Smith said he thinks the LGBT community feels strongly that the shooting was a hate crime, an allegation dropped by prosecutors after the hung jury.
"But again, I think the bigger picture is that we're moving on from this, and if dropping the hate crime attachment moved this along, then I think that was probably a good idea," he said.
Officials at the Hueneme School District said they were pleased there finally was resolution to the court proceedings.
"I'm glad there is a chapter closing," said school board member Scott Swenson.
Trustee Ralph Ramos called Monday another in a series of sad days, but at least it brings it to an end.
"It allows folks, especially the folks at E.O. Green, to put this behind them," Ramos said. ''As long as there was this specter of a trial, folks really couldn't heal because ... through testimony and through interviews, they would have to relive what happened."
The District Attorney's Office defended its decision to try the case in adult court in a three-page news release, saying trying McInerney in juvenile court, where he would be out when he was 25, was not acceptable for such a violent act.
"The district attorney is keenly aware that many in the community feel that McInerney should have been tried as a juvenile," it read. ''The McInerney case has resulted in strong and unprecedented emotional and philosophical outpourings, both in the community as well as the trial jury."
The final sentence of 21 years was a just outcome, Frawley said.
And although Greg King agrees, he said no amount of time will make it any easier.
"What is closure?" he said after the hearing. ''I'm going to wake up every morning and go to sleep every night for the rest of my life thinking of my son."
Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
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