NOT GUILTY FL - Collin Griffith, 17, stabs mother to death 1 year after fatally shooting father - Sep. 11, 2024

[Kemug]

Well friends, I'll see you all again the next time he is forced to kill someone in self defence.

 

[cujenn81]

Well friends, I'll see you all again the next time he is forced to kill someone in self defence.

I fear that might be sooner rather than later. If I were one of the neighbors or grandpa right now, I’d be getting the hell outta dodge.

 

[Swirlz]

This is maybe an irrelevant question but I didn't understand why the jurors weren't allowed to have the read-backs they asked for. I've never seen a judge deny juror requests for read-backs before. What's the point in having a court reporter take everything down if the jurors can't have it read back to them?

 

[Megnut]

This is maybe an irrelevant question but I didn't understand why the jurors weren't allowed to have the read-backs they asked for. I've never seen a judge deny juror requests for read-backs before. What's the point in having a court reporter take everything down if the jurors can't have it read back to them?

IIUC there weren't readbacks available TO be read. Court reporter hadn't generated a transcript, seems like. Judge said they "weren't available" and wouldn't be for an amount of time.

I've never seen that either.

JMO

 

[dalsglen]

Dethman sure feels like an appropriate surname.

 

[Swirlz]

IIUC there weren't readbacks available TO be read. Court reporter hadn't generated a transcript, send like. Judge said they "weren't available" and wouldn't be for an amount of time.

I've never seen that either.

JMO

Oh, o.k., thanks for clarifying. It seemed weird.

 

[Megnut]

Oh, o.k., thanks for clarifying. It seemed weird.

I think I remember too that the judge said transcripts "might" be arranged if the jury could pinpoint a specific thing they wanted read back. Speculation but maybe that was because he thought the court reporter could provide that more quickly than a lengthy or full transcript?????

Agreed. Weird.

JMO

 

[realanastasia]

This is totally my own take, but revisiting posts 66 and 74 on this thread, I get the impression that the judge seemed to take a more lenient attitude towards the defendant (for example, I can’t understand why he was allowed to leave the courtroom when the 911 call was played—the judge said that was his right, but I am not sure why the court should concern itself with protecting the defendant’s feelings) and to have a more harsh view of the victim as a parent (if I understand post 74 correctly, in a sidebar about whether parents have the right to read text messages on their children’s phones, the judge seems to have referred to her as “this mother”—as in (paraphrase), “a child with this mother ought to have known she would be snooping on his devices.” Coupled with the apparent reluctance of the judge to procure for the jury portions of the testimony they wished to have read back to them, I have the sense that CG’s verdict was inevitable.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

@realanastasia You point out some interesting things there.

 

[Luna20]

I fear that might be sooner rather than later. If I were one of the neighbors or grandpa right now, I’d be getting the hell outta dodge.

No joke, he is a bomb in waiting. There will be others throughout his life that he disagrees with. It’s likely that he will want to eliminate them.

Where will he go from here? Did he say that he will live with his grandparents?

 

[Kemug]

I would hope they get a choice about that.

 

[Karin1974]

IMO - How on earth does this happen? How anyone can depend on the justice system in the US is actually beyond my comprehension. Literally releasing murderers on the daily & if not releasing them, just letting them walk around free like Suzanne M’s husband. I’m no longer feeling secure about the upcoming BK trial because it doesn’t appear that the US justice system is much interested in justice. MOO

 

[GreatAgain]

This is UNBELIEVABLE! I cannot believe that a jury allowed this kid to walk. It is SICKENING...

 

[Taffy550]

Casey Anthoney walked. O J walked. Just to name two of many. This kid will do this again. I hope the rest of his family has their eyes open. jmo

 

[Kemug]

Casey Anthoney walked. O J walked. Just to name two of many. This kid will do this again. I hope the rest of his family has their eyes open. jmo

Before long, there probably won't even be any "rest of his family."

 

[katydid23]

The fault has to rest on the prosecution. They didn't prove their case.

But ouch. I didn't expect this.

Getting away with murder. Twice.

JMO

I blame the grandmother more than the prosecution. She was supposed to testify FOR the prosecution, which they'd planned as their final witness. If she had testified the way she had done during interviews with them, he'd have been convicted.

But she went rogue and threw her dead daughter under the bus. I don't blame the prosecutors for that---although maybe they should have known?

 

[Swirlz]

My unpopular opinion; this is on Florida's DCF. My guess is that what went on behind the scenes was that caseworkers didn't like the grandmother and knew no licensed foster parent would be willing to take a teenage boy who'd killed his father and so continued to just leave him with Cathy Griffith. They only had to do a minor amount of digging to find out she'd been convicted previously of pulling a gun on Collin's father in Collin's presence. This kid should've been anywhere other than with Cathy Griffith. DCF workers should've been on trial.

 

[Dotta]

I'm not sure if this was sent before.
All the details are terrifying

Secrets of boy, 17, charged with killing both his parents a year apart

Collin Griffith, 17, is accused of stabbing his mother Catherine Griffith, 39, in the neck during a fight at their home in Auburndale, about 50 miles northeast of Tampa.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Soulmagent]

Oh, o.k., thanks for clarifying. It seemed weird.

It still does not seem very justice like .

 

[Tealgrove]

It's almost a guarantee that he kills again.

He’s gotten away with 2 murders, maybe 3’s the charm.

I cannot believe he was found Not Guilty.

WOW!