08 April 2014 (22:04 UTC-07 Tango 09 April 2014)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1435/19 Farvardin 1393/09 Wu-Chen 4712

In 2005 a Tennessee boy was charged with a school shooting,  and spent the next eight years in prison before his trial finally ended!

He was 15 years old when he shot and killed the school principal, and shot two other officials, with a .22 caliber pistol.

Because of issues like incompetent defense attorneys and being kept from consultation with his own parents, the trial dragged on for eight years while he sat in prison.  The result was a violation of the 6th Amendment guaranteeing a timely trial.

In February 2014 the jury convicted the now adult man of reckless homicide, but found him not guilty of attempted murder.  The sentence for reckless homicide (in Tennessee) is less than the time the man already spent in prison, so the judge set him free!