by J@3 on Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:46 am
I actually saw a case on some CrimeTV-esque show that was on late night TV here a few months back, it involved a 16 year old kid who had gone into an internet chat room and said he was a student of some high school that had just had a massacre, and that he was planning on "finishing off the job". As it turns out, one of the girls in the chat room was actually a student of that school and she was so scared by it she called the police and also filed her own law suit.
It turns out that the kid lived on the other side of the country, so he was basically just talking shit. Never the less, he was arrested and placed into custody where he was constantly beaten by the other inmates... I remember it really clearly because his lawyer had promised him that he wouldn't do jail time if he admitted to what he did and apologised, and since he was getting bashed so much the judge would be lenient. He apologised and admitted to it, then the judge sentenced him to a years jail (well, juvie) to make an "example" out of him.
I think the case must've been a few years back because it seemed a bit late-90's, but was very interesting all the same.