08-04-2011, 01:23 PM
his lawyers are getting death threats. arraignment was a little while ago. i read the neighborhood is still in shock and terrible grief, and people actually won't even talk about the horror.
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AP/NYPost
The man who allegedly kidnapped and later killed 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky has been deemed fit to stand trial after pleading not guilty today during his arraignment on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges.
Appearing shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit, Levi Aron said nothing during his court appearance in Brooklyn, where he was charged with murdering Leiby after the child asked for directions, then got into his car.
Parts of Leiby’s body were later found stuffed in a suitcase and in a trash bin.
Aron was also deemed fit for trial after his lawyers had argued that he was insane, claiming he heard voices.
Levi Aron is arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court today.
Aron's lawyer Pierre Bazille said after the hearing that he may still pursue an insanity defense.
"We believe him to have some psychiatric disorder," he said.
Bazille said Aron is getting "treatment" but would not elaborate.
The Brooklyn DA's office has said that the boy was given a sickening concoction of drugs, then smothered and dismembered on July 12.
DA Charles Hynes said now that Aron "has been found fit to proceed we will move forward expeditiously to bring his case to trial. I want to reaffirm that this case will go to trial and that there are absolutely no circumstances which would lead me to accept a plea bargain.”
Aron will continue to spend time at Bellevue Hospital as he awaits trial. He is slated to undergo more psychological tests.
Cops said Leiby's severed feet were found in Aron’s refrigerator and a set of bloody carving knives were recovered from his kitchen.
Before Aron's arraignment, Assemblyman Dov Hikind t(D-Brooklyn) told the reporters that the "idea of an insanity defense is just not acceptable" to the community.
“He planned and plotted this entire horror that he committed," he said.
AP/NYPost
The man who allegedly kidnapped and later killed 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky has been deemed fit to stand trial after pleading not guilty today during his arraignment on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges.
Appearing shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit, Levi Aron said nothing during his court appearance in Brooklyn, where he was charged with murdering Leiby after the child asked for directions, then got into his car.
Parts of Leiby’s body were later found stuffed in a suitcase and in a trash bin.
Aron was also deemed fit for trial after his lawyers had argued that he was insane, claiming he heard voices.
Levi Aron is arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court today.
Aron's lawyer Pierre Bazille said after the hearing that he may still pursue an insanity defense.
"We believe him to have some psychiatric disorder," he said.
Bazille said Aron is getting "treatment" but would not elaborate.
The Brooklyn DA's office has said that the boy was given a sickening concoction of drugs, then smothered and dismembered on July 12.
DA Charles Hynes said now that Aron "has been found fit to proceed we will move forward expeditiously to bring his case to trial. I want to reaffirm that this case will go to trial and that there are absolutely no circumstances which would lead me to accept a plea bargain.”
Aron will continue to spend time at Bellevue Hospital as he awaits trial. He is slated to undergo more psychological tests.
Cops said Leiby's severed feet were found in Aron’s refrigerator and a set of bloody carving knives were recovered from his kitchen.
Before Aron's arraignment, Assemblyman Dov Hikind t(D-Brooklyn) told the reporters that the "idea of an insanity defense is just not acceptable" to the community.
“He planned and plotted this entire horror that he committed," he said.