“I did nothing wrong”
Someone sure as hell did.
Responsible adults don’t let children play cops-and-robbers with real guns.
This child wasn’t trained for policing a riot, no one was supervising him, and he lacked the maturity, wisdom, and experience to make life-and-death judgments.
Whatever the jury decides in his case, accountability shouldn’t end with him.
Why is he in adult court then? The prosecutor decided he was mature enough to be charged as an adult. [Edited comment.]
I’ve thought about this. It’s fairly common to prosecute older juveniles charged with serious crimes as adults, but if he’s convicted, would you send this baby to an adult prison? I’d be reluctant to do that. You don’t want him mingling with adult criminals. I think he should be convicted, but of manslaughter not murder, and then confined in a juvenile institution until he’s 21. Although you probably don’t want young juvies mingling with him. So I’m not exactly sure what society should do with someone like this, beyond getting him off the streets.