Re: Robert Crimo pleads guilty

On 2025-03-04 5:03 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-03-04 11:53 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 

Robert Crimo, who committed mass murder at the Highland Park Illinois
Independence Day parade in 2022, pleaded guilty to all counts.

 

A jury had been empanelled. Just before opening arguments on Monday
March 3 2025, he changed his plea to guilty.

 

There were three counts on each of the 7 victims he killed,

 

Do you have any idea why they charged him with first degree murder THREE
TIMES for each of the victims?

 I haven't read the charge sheet but you'd think a count of first-degree murder
per homicide would be enough to charge with.
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Me too but one article I read claimed there were THREE first-degree homicides charged for each person who died. That doesn't make sense to me.

. . .

 

I'm a little surprised he surrendered. Mass killers like that tend to
either be taken out by the police or do themselves in.

 I don't recall the circumstances of his arrest but it was out of state,
and he had more guns and ammunition in case he wanted to go on another
killing spree up there. He had planned to.

Oh, so he got away after the shooting and then got caught later.
Do you have the death penalty in Illinois? I'm guessing not; the article I read predicted he would never get out of prison but didn't take about execution.
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Rhino