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School killer Kip Kinkel denied new trial
09:04 AM PDT on Wednesday, August 8, 2007
SALEM, Ore. -- A Marion County judge denied school shooter Kip Kinkel's request for a new trial.
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Kipland Kinkel
Kinkel claimed he was too mentally ill to agree to a plea bargain that sent him to prison for more than 111 years. But the judge disagreed.
Background: Kinkel understood his crimes
Kinkel's attorney, Larry Matasar, said he plans to appeal.
Kinkel was just 15 when he killed two of his fellow students at Thurston High School in Springfield, wounding 25 others in May 1998.
The rampage came a day after he shot and killed his parents at home.
Kinkel argued his original defense attorneys and the trial judge should have ordered a mental competency evaluation before going ahead with the plea bargain.
But a lawyer for the attorney general's office argued during a two-day hearing in June that Kinkel understood what was happening and was intelligent enough to calculate that his best chance for a reduced sentence was the plea deal.
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