December 19, 2006

ID: "eventually something goes wrong and somebody gets killed"

From the Twin Falls Times-News:

Verdict: Guilty - Jury issues verdict in meth-related shotgun slaying

(A) jury unanimously found Donald Brink guilty of first-degree murder. The jury also found that Brink used a firearm to commit the crime, which could boost his prison time past a life sentence.

Brink had been charged in the May 29, 2005, shotgun slaying of Brent "Spook" Lillevold... "I think it's sad that somebody ruined their own life that quickly," said Deanna Lombard, the victim's daughter, after the verdict. "But I have no remorse..."

Lillevold's family said after the trial Tuesday that they hold Brink responsible for killing Lillevold. That makes him unsafe for the streets, they said. But would he still have murdered Lillevold if neither he nor the victim had been addicted to meth? Deanna Lombard speculated that he might not have...


Video here of the closing arguments and the verdict.

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