Fulfillment of teenagers long branch and 150-year-old prison in 2017 Family massacre, which is supported by a court

Freehold – The Court of Appeal today supported a criminal record and 150 -year -old prison term for Scott Cologi, a man from a long branch, who, as a teenager engaged in special needs, softened her mother, father, sisters and grandmother with a brother’s attack in the new annual party On the eve of 2017.

Judge Kay Walcott-Gendrson, Arnold Natalie Jr. and Khani A. was in the Supreme Court of Appeal, at 106-page thought, rejected the 10 arguments set out in the lawyers who seek to cancel his condemnation and sentence.

The main argument was that the judge, who determines the sentence, does not consider the young and mental restrictions of cologues adequately in the conclusion of “grossly excessive punishment”.

Cologi, who is now 23 years old, was 16 years old when he was deadly shot his mother, Linda Kologi, 44 years old; Father, Stephen Cologi, Senior, 42; Sister, Brittany, 18 years old; And Mary Schultz, 70 years old, the ancient companion of his grandfather, whom he considered his grandmother, all gathered in a long ward of the family for a New Year’s party.

Monmouth’s jurors, condemning Kologi at four murder points, rejected the protection against the madness put forward by his lawyers Richard Lomuro and Eku NKVOO.

They argued that Kologi 2022 was testing that it is autistic and schizophrenic and survived the psychotic episode during massacre.

Defense in his appeal argued that the Supreme Court Judge Mark K. Lemie, a sentence in a collomic up to 150 years in prison, could not properly consider his youth, the fact that his mother reflects his request for mental health treatment and that his brother left a loaded assault rifle near his bed, accessible to the defendant.

Although a minor, cologues were tried as an adult because of the severity of offenses.

Supporting convictions and sentences, appellate judges cited evidence that the cologi had planned murder, methodically chose who to kill and whom to spare, and then disarm himself and waited in his bedroom for the police to arrive.

“These facts prevailed by limited evidence, which indicate that the defendant was looking for mental health treatment, represented by his aunt’s testimony,” the judge wrote.

The commission noted that Lemier said in the sentence of Kologiya: “These actions with which the defendant was involved was obviously the actions of an evil person with an evil spirit with the intention of killing as many people in his way as possible.”

In accordance with the punishment imposed by Lemgo, Kologi will not receive the right to conditionally -diligent release until he has been serving 127 years, six months and four days of imprisonment.

“The judge of the trial emphasized that his intention was that” the defendant never sees the light of the outside of the prison again, “the appellate panel said.

After learning about the decision of the Court of Appeal, Lomurro promised to go to the Supreme Court of the state.

“This is a heartfelt case, and it’s easier to do – it is to go and say,” It’s over, “Lomuro said.” But we are not going to do it. Scott was a 16-year-old autist with many problems that were ignored. If we turn back, we do the same again.

“The battle will continue,” he said.

Asbury Park Press appealed to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office for comments and waited for hearing.

The appellate judges also rejected the arguments of the defense, now the judge of the appointment of Monmouth, incorrectly allowed the jury to watch the video confession of the cologue.

The defense argued that the confession had to be excluded because the older brother, who acted as a defendant’s guardian during the police survey, had a conflict of interest.

“The entry supports the court’s opinion, which brother acted with the best interests of the defendant,” the appellate judges wrote. He did not join the interrogation, did not blame the defendant and did not press on him. The defendant’s rights did not violate the brother who advised him to tell the truth ”.

In the video of the confession, the cologi gave the detectives a detailed presentation of the massacre, telling them that he had taken the storm rifle of his brother, loaded 30 balls into two magazines and went out fires in his room so that his mother did not see him when she came to look for him for minutes before midnight. When she did it, the cologi told the detectives that he shot her five or seven times in his chest and torso, and then shot his father in his back when he came upstairs to see what was happening.

After the shooting of his parents, the cologi said he went down and pumping four balls to Schultz before returning the gun to his sister and shooting three times in his chest and head.

Cologi also told detectives about the experience of bizarre hallucinations since childhood. He said he feels watching the movie when he kills his family members.

Cologi did not testify to the test.

Aunt, however, testified that the teenager told her mother that she wanted to talk to a therapist about the thoughts of causing harm to the family, but her mother forbade him.

Caitlin Sadley and Shan Brenan, Assistant Prosecutors of Monmouth, argued that the jury knows exactly what he was doing when he loaded the assault rifle and pulled the trigger 14 times, aiming at the family members, hitting it 12 14 times.

Cologues spend their term in the state prison in New Jersey in Trenton.

Katlin Hopkins, a reporter in New Jersey since 1985, has covered a crime, court cases, legal issues and almost every major lawsuit in murder to get to Monmouth and the ocean. Contact it at [email protected].

This article originally appeared in Asbury Park Press: Long branch teen loses attractiveness in a new age family