Sarah Kruzan: Sentenced to Life Without Parole at Age 16

[Black_Apalachi]

The life she has now is better than the life she had before. This would be the motivation behind the crime which I can completely understand.

[kk.]

What a fine argument you bring across :rolleyes:

If u read the above post... :rolleyes:

[Jordy]

What a fine argument you bring across :rolleyes:

I believe you can "kill" someone in self-defence in the UK, I'm pretty sure there's only been the one case in recent times and they won due to self-defence? It's very difficult to prove things are self-defence though to be honest and your life really does have to be in danger to kill in self-defence.

I understand in this particular case it wasn't directly self-defence but in my opinion, the circumstances should of been taken into account when sentencing.

[Frisky]

"Sara Kruzan grew up with her mother in RIVERSIDE MOTHER******, California"

This was not a self defence case. If it was going on from her youth obviously it's difficult to get away from that but she quite clearly had time to go to the police or something as she was still school age and as far as I'm aware not locked up in GGs house for all her time. If at the time or her killing him he was attempting to kill her then it's self defence, otherwise it's the premeditated murder that she's been convicted of. So she's 16 and not 60, that means nothing. She still killed a man no matter how awful a person he was and the law shouldn't bend to say that a killing to improve her life is the same thing as killing to save her life, especially when there were other ways of getting change to come around

when I read 'Riverside' I completely thought the same thing LOL.

Maybe she should do her time, yes, she even agress, but I don't think life without parole is a good idea. Life over in the UK is only like 25 years in jail, it isn't actually LIFE.

[-Adam]

when I read 'Riverside' I completely thought the same thing LOL.

Maybe she should do her time, yes, she even agress, but I don't think life without parole is a good idea. Life over in the UK is only like 25 years in jail, it isn't actually LIFE.

Ye, but life should mean LIFE. Maybe then it would stop people doing the harsh things they do, maybe not, who knows.

[Sammeth.]

I would have snapped way before 3 years.

[FlyingJesus]

I would have snapped way before 3 years.

Maybe she wasn't that tight

[Black_Apalachi]

I would have snapped way before 3 years.

Same :rolleyes:

Maybe she wasn't that tight

How is it tight? It's tight on her.

[tdi]

in all fairness, she could have done many things like gone to the police, she didn't have to kill him regardless of whatever he did was wrong and sickening or not. agreed, she should be punished and i do partly agree that life is too much, perhaps quite a long sentence would suffice.. but I do not agree that she should be 'freed'.. sure, she's had a hard life but you can't just release people because of a sob story?

[Black_Apalachi]

Yeah I know what you mean. If I'm totally honest, what has happened is what should happen based on her actions. I'm just wondering though, if this is the sentence given to her as a minor, what would have the sentence been for an adult? At least knock off the 'without parole' bit for a minor.