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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Caleb Quick’s suspected shooter returned to tribunal Tuesday to docket his transportation hearing.
He and his girlfriend look autarkic execution charges aft Quick was changeable successful a Clovis McDonald’s parking batch successful April.
He was arrested astatine 16 years old, and his transportation proceeding volition find whether he’s tried arsenic an big oregon a minor.
However, Quick’s household and friends crowded the Fresno County courtroom to simply beryllium sent location due to the fact that the proceeding was delayed.
“We hold much clip successful the hallway than we really bash successful the courtroom,” Caleb’s father, Stephen Quick, said.
He was neither amazed nor disappointed by the delay, though.
“Honestly, I was expecting this to get pushed retired till adjacent year. No 1 wants to enactment connected the holidays and this is simply a precise superior case,” Quick said.
He is contented with delays arsenic agelong arsenic it means the attorneys bash a much thorough occupation of preparing.
“It wouldn't bash my lad immoderate justness if we conscionable made a determination contiguous hastily. So I privation to marque definite everything is, you know, ‘T’s are crossed, ‘I’s are dotted,” Quick said.
Defense lawyer Mark Coleman says the proceeding was delayed due to the fact that they request much clip to survey the evidence.
“There is simply a batch of discovery, peculiarly successful the signifier of physics discovery… the magnitude of information connected those phones is unbelievable,” Coleman said.
Coleman is warring to support his lawsuit successful the juvenile justness strategy so, adjacent if helium is convicted, helium volition beryllium released astatine 25 years aged – a close guaranteed by Prop 57.
“Ultimately, the contented is punishment arsenic opposed to rehabilitation,” Coleman said.
He says his defence strategy to support the fishy successful juvenile tribunal relies connected intelligence evidence.
“There is an undisputed assemblage of grounds that shows that juvenile encephalon development, particularly if they've been exposed to definite beingness events, is different,” Coleman said.
Coleman says they are looking into events that whitethorn person antecedently damaged oregon delayed the suspect’s encephalon development.
“Childhood events,” Coleman said. “Concussions successful football, concussions erstwhile you're 7 years aged tin pb to encephalon injury. Yes, I americium suggesting determination is grounds of that.”
Quick doubts the rationale of that argument.
“There are a batch of antithetic circumstances that an idiosyncratic tin person increasing up, for sure. But, I mean, a batch of radical don't extremity up putting a weapon to someone's caput and pulling the trigger due to the fact that of those situations,” Quick said.
The fishy volition instrumentality to tribunal to docket the transportation proceeding connected Jan. 8, and Coleman says they volition apt docket it for February oregon March.
