GUILTY PA - Ryan Mangan 16, shot to death, Jeannette, 4 Feb 2015

[wendybtn]

Still awaiting trial per Richrd's link to pacourts, above.

 

[Richrd]

Morton's Next Scheduled Court Date is June 20, 2016

Maxwell Marion Morton :: M/17 :: Homicide+ :: 4 Feb 2015

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/CPReport.ashx?docketNumber=CP-65-CR-0001626-2015:

Per Above Docket Page 1 of 6​

 

[OkieGranny]

http://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/11955609-74/morton-mangan-jurors

A Westmoreland County jury spared a Jeannette teen from a possible life sentence when they found him guilty Thursday of a less serious charge of third-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his friend, a crime he documented with a “selfie” of himself and the body...

Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio, who presided over the four-day trial, said Morton will be sentenced in three months. He faces up to 40 years in prison for the third-degree murder conviction.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Jeannette 'selfie' killer gets up to 30 years in prison

http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/12294242-74/jeannette-selfie-killer-gets-prison-sentence

Maxwell Morton, who turns 19 this week, told a Westmoreland County judge Monday that he did not want to be remembered as a “savage” and conceded that the Feb. 4, 2015, shooting of 16-year-old Ryan Mangan in the bedroom of his Jeannette home was “messed up.”

“Sometimes sorry isn't enough for people, but that's all I have to give,” Morton said.

Common Pleas Court Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio sentenced Morton to serve 15 to 30 years in prison. A jury in February found him guilty of third-degree murder.

The judge noted Morton's age and suggested that using his cellphone to take a photograph of himself smiling with Mangan's body — he was slumped over a chair in the background with a bullet hole under his left eye — rather than call for help substantially altered the case.

“You look like a little boy to me, and now I am faced with sentencing you,” Bilik-DeFazio said. “The reality is this case would be very different but not for that photograph. No one will understand the thought process of taking that photo.”

Mangan's parents told the judge they were devastated by their son's death and said they will be unable to forgive Morton for the killing.

“I have no sympathy for the devil that took my son's life away from me. I hope he ... burns in hell for eternity,” said George Mangan, the victim's father.

Morton's parents described their son as a young man who has struggled with racism but had dreams to attend college.

“This is just tragic,” said his mother, Honey Morton. “These two lives were just destroyed.”

 

[Richrd]

http://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/12330108-74/jeannette-selfie-killer-appeals-sentence

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

sentenced to 15 to 30. He could be out in 8. WHERE ARE THE PROFESSIONAL JURIES IN THIS COUNTRY???? (I know the judge pronounced sentence but it was within guidelines for crime his jury convicted him of). Appalling.

Form that link: In the appeal, Thomassey said the judge failed to give appropriate weight to Morton's age and other mitigating circumstances and that the sentence imposed was unduly harsh in that it didn't consider his lack of a criminal record, poor critical thinking skills and unfamiliarity with firearms.

This kid will come out of prison worse off then when he went in, for starters.

 

[al66pine]

Richrd
Thx for your update & link to triblive. From that link





Unfamiliarity w FIREARMS? Maybe he should have kept his MITTS OFF THE GUN???

If there is anything worse than ppl w guns doing selfies, it's TEENS w guns doing selfies. JM2cts.