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Life In Jail Speeches

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“We will be in recess while the jury deliberates, and then we’ll reconvene for the verdict,” Judge Salenger informed the people in the courtroom before turning to step down from his bench. And, with those words, here I wait. In just a short while I will find out if I’ll be spending the rest of my life in prison, or the even more likely Mills County Psychiatric Center. For me, the death penalty been taken off the table on account that I’m only seventeen. My lawyer, Abraham Shultz, had pushed hard for juvenile status, but the judge had denied it. I don’t think it would have helped much anyways. They never let people like me back out on the streets. Not after what I have done. I guess it all started about three years ago. I was just beginning my freshman year of high school. My classmates during this time were all beginning to divide themselves up into different social groups and cliques consisting of the cool kids and the rest of the losers. It was obvious right then that what group you landed in would ultimately decide your fate over the next four years. Well, I guess you’ve probably already figured out which side of the fence I was on, huh? I never even really stood a chance from the get go. I had never been good at sports or could honestly say I even ever …show more content…

There came the night that I had gotten even with them, I remember it vividly. To the people who know me they say it was the day I had finally snapped. “Snapped” to me that’s a funny word, like I’m broken somehow. The truth is, I never snapped at all. I had wanted and had planned my revenge on Michael Stanley, Erik Johnson, and all the rest of them pricks who tormented me more than anything else in this world. Revenge on anyone who had ever treated me like I wasn’t human, like I was just some animal to kick and spit upon, they were all fair game in my book. I was going to make sure they all

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