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By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, April 26, 2013 Almost 15 years after he fatally shot his parents and then went on a shooting rampage at Thurston High School, Kipland P. Kinkel is asking a state judge to throw out his nearly 112-year sentence based on a landmark ruling last summer by the U.S. Supreme Court. […]
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 29, 2013 This month, President Barack Obama said it again. In his speech on new gun control measures, Mr. Obama repeated the catchphrase of mental health advocates: “We acknowledge that someone with a mental illness is far more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator.” […]
From The Oregonian, August 12 2011 Thirteen years after committing one of the most horrific crimes in Oregon history, Kipland P. Kinkel has finally exhausted his appeals in state court and is starting anew in federal court. But one thing hasn’t changed: He still argues that he was mentally ill at the time of the […]
From The Oregonian, October 25, 1999, by Michelle Roberts READ – Losing Christopher – a son out of control, October 24, 1999 On May 22, 1996, Sydney Putnam moved Christopher Hutchinson‘s folder to the top of her stack. Putnam, a caseworker for the state Office for Services to Children and Families, was juggling the cases […]
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