Levi Aron’s New Lawyer: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
The new lawyer for the man accused of killing and dismembering an eight-year-old Brooklyn boy talked to reporters for the first time Tuesday.
Attorney Jennifer McCann joined the defense team for Levi Aron on Friday.
Another lawyer stepped down, saying the details of the crime were too much to handle, but McCann says her client is innocent until proven guilty.
“I understand people are outraged by what is a horrific, horrific crime, and they believe they found who’s guilty and they believe he should be punished and they don’t appreciate anyone who wants to spend his rights,” said McCann. “But this isn’t a country where we believe in shooting galleries and lynch mobs.”
Leiby Kletzky was reported missing two weeks ago.
Police later found the boy’s remains in Aron’s home and in a dumpster in Sunset Park.
Aron is charged with murder and kidnapping.
He pleaded not guilty.
wat?
he pleaded not guilty but he admitted the whole murder? shes a crazy 1 hu is after the $$$
mayer harlig
I heard, “derech agav”, that the macheshafa Linda Reade-yemach shemah is looking for a shidduch for her illegitimate son – BOY! Would this be a tzugepasteh shidduch!
Where can you find a shivgger and a schnieer that both crawled out from under the same rock?!
Laura
so stupid…
who-s insane?
The question here is not if he’s guilty, he pretty much admitted and had facts for the police that only he could know. The question isn’t even if he’s sane or not…. hearing this lawyer speak, the question is: is she sane?
Steve
EXCUSE ME JENNIFER DEAR. Do yourself a favor and walk off this assignment like Lawyer #1. The facts on the ground cannot be smoothed over. As the Torah says: An Eye for An Eye. This Aron character has no place to run + hide. Do you understand? You’re wasting your precious professional time. This is a sure nail in the coffin for this beast. Do you read me loud and clear? …. EARTH TO JENNIFER – EARTH TO JENNIFER – Oh My Gosh!!!! Let God take over. Oh My Gosh. The guy led the cops to every piece of bloody tissue. Do you deny that? Maybe you as a lawyer should get yourself checked in a mental institution instead.
moshe Meir
This lady is a serious MORON being that she says innocent until proven guilty however even she admitted that Leiby was in his refrigerator was does that tell u but u gotta be politically correct and say prove that he is guilty according 2 this new lady lawyer.
Make an exception
“But this isn’t a country where we believe in shooting galleries and lynch mobs.”
True but there should be an exception in this case.
Finally
She’s right. Hopefully she will succeed at insanity and he can get help at an asylum.
Confused
The story swiched Now. Before he said he was guilty what is going on.
WE NEED MOSHIACH NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is just trying to get famous on this case! Hashem is the true judge!!!! Aron has to much evidence.
He is GUILTY !!!!!!!!!!!!
How could she say innocent until proven guilty. When the evidence was in his home!!!
MR THINK
EVIDENCE??
WHAT EVIDENCE!
EVIDENCE DIDNT PROVE RE HIS SANITY!!
Y WOULD 1 JEW WISH TO VIEW ANOTHER AS MALICIOUSELY GUILTY! INSTEAD OF INSANELY INNOCENT??
WHATS IF HE IS SUFFERING FROM AN GENETIC MENTAL ABERRATION! WHICH EVRYONE WHO KNEW HIM CONFIRM HE WAS NOT NORMAL, MAYBE HE WAS INSANE!!
BEING INSANE ENOUGH CAN DO ANYTHING TO ITS HOST VICTIM!!
AND AS HE IS A DANGER TO SOCIETY! HE SHOULD BE LOCKED UP FOREVR REGARDLESS OF HIS GUILT OR INSANITY!
SIMPLY BEC (HIS FAULT OR NOT) HE’S A DANGER TO CIVIL SOCIETY!
ceo
theres so much we don’t know. Like :
where is his father who was in the news only at the beginning of the story
and
what did his boss and co workers say about him, didn’t he keep that job for a while? He was able to keep a job, right?
and what about the evidence of other children’s clothing being in his home?
and
what about where he lived in Memphis, what do they pick up from there? He had a job there AS A BUTCHER, and he kept that job for a while too.
I don’t know if this lady will have success. Truth comes out, and this guy is evil.
Legal Eagle
If the police entered his apartment without a search warrant and if they questioned the suspect without giving him his Miranda Rights, much of the later discovered evidence that resulted from violating his Rights may not be admissible in a court of law.
Not all “evidence” is allowed to be used in trial!
Even “confessions” are sometime not allowed into court!
Also, we must remember that dismembering a body is not “murder”. Even if the evidence of dismemberment is allowed into court, what does that prove? There could have been another person who did the actual murder. And if there was another party also involved, wouldn’t we want justice from him too?!
Further, evidence of offering a ride may not prove a kidnapping. Have you ever given someone a ride? Were you kidnapping them??
Finally, suppose for a minute if NO lawyer al all would take this case…the “last lawyer in town” refuses the case…it would become impossible for him to have a trial and subsequent conviction! Would that make you happy???
Let us leave the legal process to those that know how it works and keep our foolishness within ourselves, where it belongs.
declasse intellectual
To all of you above, your comments are out of line unless you live in North Korea. In this country no matter the evidence and no matter the confession, a person has to still be put in front of a judicial system and be convicted whether by his own words–which the Germora doesnot allow–or by a jury and then be sentensed in the appropriate manner. Ms. mcCann is right, until this occurs, the perperator of this horrific crime is not guilty as of now. This is the difference between this country and North Korea where you belong with our attitude.
Need the feds
He admitted to the crime and explained how he did it in writting. The only issue is whether he is insaine. Feds need to take over ie interstate to NJ and get him the death penalty.
declasse intellectual
P.S. In some parts of the world, they just take the perp out and chop off his head–no fuss, no mess and no bother and look at the money it saves. Is that what you people are advocating!! Answer this question. I say yes by reading your statements. And then who is worse him or us??????
HE NEEDS TO BE KILL WITHOUT PAROLE...
DO NOT PANIC PEOPLE SHE’S GOING TO RUN AWAY TOO VERY SOON ….HOPEFULLY…. 1 THING NEED TO BE KILL RIGHT AWAY, WE PAY HIS LAWYERS AND HIS MENTAL EVALUATION AND JAIL, AS MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND OTHERS MENTIONNED WITHOUT PAROLE… IT SHOWS NOT HER SON KILLED BY THAT BUTCHER, AFTERALL MONEY TALKS, PEOPLE!!!
A Lawyer
Funny how Chabad expects Rubashkin, l’havdil, to have every millimeter of the legal system raked over to his advantage. But you all cannot understand that the same legal system presides over all crimes, regardless of their horror or our reaction. If he is declared legally insane then he will spend the rest of his life in a locked mental ward where he cannot harm others or himself. However bad Rubashkin has it, his fate and the effectiveness of our judicial code is intimately tied up in the fate of Levi Aron.
FAKER
What would Jennifer McCann say if it was HER child who had been so brutally murdered by Levi Aron?
Rebecca
She is just doing her job.
A few years back a mentally deficient man was brainwashed into believing he had murdered someone, so he confessed.
Once the detectives started poking around, they realized he couldn’t have.
If Aron is guilty it is galling that tax payers are out of pocket for the whole rigamarole.
Guaranteed
GUARANTEE # 1 He will not be tried in Brooklyn any judge will grant a change of venue because of the publicity and deserved hatred.
crown heights mother
*Declasse Intellectual* is right. B’H, we live in a country where every individual is presumed innocent, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the crime, UNTIL proven guilty. Let the system run its course. LA is owed a defense, and he’s gonna need a really good one.
dovid
if he is insane ,- why he did not jump from the roof
or on the subway tracks and kill himself ???!!!!!!
but no ,- he killed a little boy ……………
o ,- he is sane – yimah shmey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and guilty – yimah zihrey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Natalie
There is no question as to his guilt dummy. He admitted it! They found pieces of the boy in his apartment. He told there where to find the rest of the body. If he didn’t do it then how could he know that sort of thing? GUILTY! Is he sane? Probably not, you’d HAVE to be insane to do something like that but at the same time I am sick of people hiding behind the insanity plea as some sort of free pass to do horrific things. Put him down like the rabid dog he is already!
Debra
There’s nothing to talk about. The New York State Judicial System must go through the entire gamut to process this horrendous crime. If he gets insanity to commit murder, he’ll be a sitting vegetable for life under the 24/7 watchful eye of a dog-eat-dog lifestyole, and will try to find a way to commit suicide. His physical and spiritual neshamas (if you can call it that) will suffer greatly…. The New York Upstate correctional institutions are known to be strict to the bone. There is no mercy.
Somebody wants to become famous
She is a nobody wanting to become a somebody and this case is giving her the exposure she wants. It has nothing to do with justice.
to lawyer
the second you put rubashkin and this scum in the same sentence….. you lost your right to talk
To # 14 Legal Eagle
you’re right, but the issue is in the way she is talking as if he should be considered innocent. Perhaps in theory, but practically speaking that’s a tough thing to do. I thought the original statement from the lawyers was more in line. When they wished condolences to the family and not much else. Don’t go around waving his innocent flag in the face of the mourners. If she feels he’s innocent of any wrong doing, let her prove that in court. And to the public she should express whatever feeling she had when she first heard of the case (besides for $$ and fame)
RJ898
Let him walk, cut him loose, let the Borough Park justice system handle it!
tzippi
Sick and geedy woman. Definitely an anti semite. Any who defends this rosho is a rosho themselves.
dovid
to # 25: natalie,
“ Is he sane? Probably not, you’d HAVE to be insane to do something like that …”
look at german SS solders ,- at home they were doctors ,teachers , composers ,….
or today some 3d. world countries police or intelligence torchering ………
or war in Bosnia on both sides ………
,-pure atrocities …….. – – they are sane but EVIL ………….
so is aron YIMAH SHMEY ,
sane but EVIL -ROSHE to the maximum ………..
TO # 8 AND #19
TO NUMBER 8 I SAY, EITHER YOU DON’T HAVE CHILDREN AND DON’T REALIZE HOW PRECIOUS THEY ARE, AND HOW ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC WHEN THEY ARE LOST TO THEIR PARENTS, OR YOUR MORE INSANE THAN THAT SANE SADISTICAL BUTCHER! AND DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU HES INSANE. HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOING, HE WAS VERY METHODICAL ABOUT IT ALL AND DIDN’T FOR A FRACTION OF A SECOND DENY THAT HE DID IT.
TO NUMBER 19 I SAY, IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT THAT LAWYERS IS A MISPELLED WORD! IT REALISTICALLY SHOULD BE SPELLED LIEYERS!!!! AND THEIR DEFINITION SHOULD READ, HEARTLESS, UNSCRUPULOUS, CROOKED, UNJUST SPECIMENS OF THE HUMAN RACE.
No alternative other than a lynching
What’s all this hype and hysteria against this lawyer?
There is a process that needs to take place. Without the matter going to court he will not be convicted and sentenced appropriately.It can only go to court if he has some sort of defence lawyer representing him.
She knows he is guilty, as does every everyone else, but the process needs to go ahead.
What? did you really think that there was not going to be any replacement for the defence lawyer who resigned?
C’mon! get real!
Thinkster
Cop: “Ah, sir, why are there feet in your freezer?”
Levi:“I’ve never seen those before….I’m not guilty. NOT GUILTY!”
Cop:“You are under arrest. You have he right to remain silent…”
Defense Lawyer:“I’ll represent Levi McScum….actually, I also hail from the McScum family. And he DESERVES A FAIR TRIAL! I mean, just the other day I got home and found feet in my freezer. It happens.”
Counselor Carl
To Legal Eagle:
From what I understand from the news reports, initially entering his apartment was with consent. After arresting him and clearing the apartment, they waited some time until a search warrant could be delivered for the rest of the apartment. There is no fourth amendment issue here.
As to Miranda, it is highly unlikely the cops screwed up a Miranda warning on something where like this. But its irrelevant because, at least if the news reports are to be believed, he pointed to the fridge and told the police where the body was before he had been placed under arrest. Exclusions of evidence for failure to give Miranda warnings apply only after arrest.
The question is whether the confession would be permitted. Assuming that the cops didn’t screw up the Miranda warnings and Levi Aron didn’t ask for counsel under NY’s indelible right to counsel, the confession is admissible. This also presumes they didn’t beat the confession out of him, but my impression, again from the news reports, is that he was very cooperative with the police.
First degree kidnapping is evidenced by his finding him in the street and taking him away for more than 12 hours. It doesn’t matter whether he enticed him or not, he held him for the requisite period of time for first degree kidnapping.
If he committed first degree kidnapping, it no longer matters if he committed the actual murder or not, because he is charged with felony murder. Someone else could have committed the murder and he’d still be liable for first degree murder. He is liable for the death of his kidnapping victim, no matter how it happens, because he was in the course of committing a predicate felony.
His only realistic options for a defense is with the insanity plea. The People have a pretty powerful case here for first degree murder, even if you disbelieve his confession.
To A Lawyer:
I couldn’t agree more.
dumb!!!
she is a lawyer for gods sake. some of these comments are really dumb. you obviously never met a lawyer in your life.
yona
I think both of them need to go to mental hospital. To get checkt out. & we will see resolts!
To #14 Legal Eagle
Are you saying that this case can go the way of O.J. Simpson c”v??? OMB!!!! Come to think of it I never read in any article that the police had a Search Warrant when they entered the apartment or that they read him the Miranda! Oy vey! Is it possible that the case can fall apart??? We better say tehimin that justice shall take place!!!!! I am feeling sick…
to 11 and 14
to #11 He murdered an innocent child. It was hashgacha protis that Levi Aron was found quickly. The weapon was in his home and victim. One jew is not calling another jew guilty for no reason.(maliciousely- is the crime itself). C’mon Hashem will be the true judge and so far Hashem and klal yisroel let levi aron with little chance. Good job. To #14 do not add more to a false story like someone else could have done it. You are right leave it only but not to the legal system to Hashem. Moshiach Now!
we need brochos!
even if he is guilty and deserves punishnent accordingly, all this languege of cursing is not the proper way for a yid to speak and espacialy about another yid even someone who did such a terrible thing. we need more words of brochos.
to #41
i think the rebbe once spoke this idea in a farbrengen
DreamTeam
The dream team for Levi would be:
Huebner
Zakaki
Poltorak
But Huebner alone is enough to guarantee that the monster will end up like Dahmer.
gey in drerd
This machashefa, is a GREEDY limelight seeking ANTI SEMITE. No ther reason for to take up this case!
Yid
I “heard” that the rebbe once said that even Arafat could still do teshuva – so long that he is still living. If anyone knows the source please tell us
Liberal Lies
She is simply parrating typical liberal blurt. When you catch a Taliban and imprison him, the liberals are the first to peep up their voice and demand prisoner rights. Run over a dog and their the first to come running yelling animal rights, rights. Cut a chicken and they show up for kappores with their preaching rights. Pick up a child off the street, cut him, trash him, and the liberals are right here, not to be mistaken: Killers have rights!!!!
right is wrong and wrong has rights.
DreamTeam
This is a case where a lynch mob would be in order. It is also a proof to the old adage “the law’s a (donkey).”
However, I must retract my suggestion in post 43. Being forced to take Huebner as a lawyer is cruel and unusual punishment and it would be unconstitutional.
awacs
“Spend his rights”?
Did she really say “spend his rights”?
Spoken like a S. John’s grad.
smart one
well she does have a point for lets just say their is 1 in a million chance that he is really insane then let the lawyer try to prove it and if not than he will rot in jail and justice will be served