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=__Teen Faces Trial In Golf Club Slaying__=

A teenager named Robert Lowry was put on trial today for killing Justin Hussin in Wixom at 3:15 on September 1st outside of Justin's house during at street fight between Walled Lake Northern High School and Walled Lake Western High School. It was one eyewitness who saw all the whole situation. The eyewitness named Vincent Robinson who was Lowry's friend, he drove Lowry and two other teens to the fight when Lowry found out the location from one of the opponents by phone. Robinson said that no one in the car had any weapons but, when they got to the fight Hussin had a baseball bat and others had golf clubs. Lowry picked one up off of the ground, Robinson says that as Justin swung the bat at Robert and then Robert stepped back while he prepared a wild swing at Justin hitting him loudly on the head. Justin died at the scene while Lowry and his friends sped away from the scene of the crime. Robinson's eyewitness encounter is going to determine whether or not Lowry is charged with second degree manslaughter, a lesser charge of manslaughter, or is just simply not guilty. The second degree murder charge can equal up to life in prison, and the lesser charge can equal fifteen years in prison. Steven Schwartz who is Lowry's lawyer says, "he was just acting in self-defense." At the preliminary hearing they decided to keep the bail at $500,000 and cannot post 10% off of the bail because he did not try to help the victim he just fled from the crime scene. I believe that this case was mostly fair. I believe that Robinson was acting in self-defense, but I just don't understand the whole idea behind the fight. I don't get why the teens were so interested in going to this fight knowing that someone was defiantly going to get hurt. So I kind of feel that both parties set themselves up for this to happen. I don't think they knew that their actions would turn out this harshly but, when you don't think before you act then this is something that can happen. I think if this would have been an adult matters would have been even worse. I think this is apart of the reason why adults view us so badly. Even though all teens aren't the same this kind of makes adults think that we are stupid or just altogether not important at all. Thats why we shouldn't let things like that happen that way we can improve our teenage image before it is too late.


 * __References__**

Laitner, B. (2009, October, 8). //Teen faces trial in golf club slaying//. Retrieved from http://www.freep.com/article/20091008/NEWS03/91008055/Teen-faces-trial-in-golf-club-slaying

(Photographer). (n.d.). //Walled lake northern high school//. Retrieved from http://www.schooldesigns.com/catalog/images/811a754.jpg

(Photographer). (n.d). //Walled lake western high school// [Web]. Retrieved from http://walledlakewestern7079.com/CQRFiles/Sites/Site11466/PageImages/Page32948_522.JPG