This one just screams to be picked apart by talk hosts:
LOCAL NEWSWEB EXTRA - Marshfield teen sentenced to jail in high school massacre plot
By SYDNEY SCHWARTZ
The Patriot LedgerMARSHFIELD - The Marshfield teen convicted of planning an attack on Marshfield High School will spend the next five months in the Plymouth County jail.
Tobin Kerns, 19, was sentenced today to 10 months in jail by Juvenile Court Judge Louis Coffin. He was given credit for time he spent in a juvenile detention center after his arrest, and for the past six weeks awaiting sentencing.
He was found guilty Sept. 27 of conspiracy to commit murder and threatening to use deadly weapons in a school massacre planned for April 2005.
Kerns was tried as a youthful offender. His trial was largely completed in October 2006, but a verdict was delayed because prosecutors and the judge had differing legal interpretations of a law on making threats to use dangerous weapons at a school. The argument was decided by the state Supreme Judicial Court.
Kerns and Joseph Nee, 21, were indicted in the fall of 2004 on charges that they planned to lock down Marshfield High, set off explosions throughout the school and then start shooting. The plot was allegedly modeled after the 1999 killings at Columbine, a high school in Colorado, which killed 15 people.
Both Kerns and Nee were students at the school at the time. Nee, the son of Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Thomas Nee, is awaiting trial in Plymouth Superior Court.
Two other Marshfield students, Joseph Sullivan and Daniel Farley, were given immunity in exchange for their testimony. Nee and Kerns were members of a clique that called itself the Natural Born Killers.
Only in the Bay State- five months. I'm always curious about tipping points: do these kinds of stories help to drive lifetime residents right out of New England?
