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  1. 05-16-2002, 07:37 PM #1
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    Spitball Could Land Boy in Prison
    Thu May 16, 7:50 AM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An errant spitball that put a fellow student in the hospital with an eye injury could land a 13-year-old California boy in juvenile prison for up to eight years on two felony convictions.


    "I feel bad about it, and I'm sorry," Jeffrey Figueroa told the San Francisco Chronicle, which on Wednesday reported his run-in with the law.

    Figueroa has admitted that he shot the spitball -- a gum wrapper moistened with saliva -- on the first day of school last September at a middle school in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek, California.

    Jeffrey said he was not aiming at anybody in particular. But the spitball hit a 14-year-old boy in the right eye, requiring a trip to the hospital and surgery.

    Jeffrey and his 14-year-old brother Stephen, who allegedly urged Jeffrey to fire the spitball, both were charged with battery causing serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, assault by force likely to produce great bodily injury, and mayhem.

    Last Tuesday, Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Araceli Ramirez found Jeffrey guilty of battery causing serious bodily injury and mayhem, both felonies. His brother was found guilty on a lesser charge.

    The Chronicle said that Jeffrey, who has had two heart surgeries and has Attention Deficit Disorder, now faces a sentence of up to eight years in a California Youth Authority prison when he is sentenced next month.

    "What we have is an unfortunate accident with injury to a child, but what one time had been horseplay has now been, by the D.A. (district attorney), elevated to felony status, just on the basis of the unfortunate outcome of an accidental act," said attorney Marek Reavis, who is representing Stephen Figueroa.

    The district attorney's office declined to comment on the Figueroa case on Wednesday, saying that because it dealt with juveniles the court records had been sealed.

    But Jeffrey Figueroa's mother, Yvette, told the Chronicle her son's possible prison term came as a shock.

    "All along we've had a lot of confidence that the judicial system would actually prove that Jeffrey and Stephen were innocent in this," she said. "We're totally in shock that they've been overcharged for something that was a terrible accident."


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  2. 05-16-2002, 07:56 PM #2
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    Does this mean that I should stop shooting snot balls?
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  3. 05-16-2002, 07:58 PM #3
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    You'll put someone's eye out ...
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    Originally posted by SeaWolf
    Does this mean that I should stop shooting snot balls?
    No, but I'll report you if you do.

    This reminds me of the 12 year old that got charged with attempted murder when a rock he threw off an overpass blinded a priest.


    How does a 12 year old get attempted murder for being a kid??

    Crazy. . .

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  6. 05-16-2002, 08:06 PM #5
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    someone threw a penny out like the 30t floor of a building and almost hit my friend in the head(ground level)
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    Well, you know the old saying...

    "Its all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out"

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    Originally posted by Visionray
    Well, you know the old saying...

    "Its all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out"
    That's why I don't play Monopoly anymore. . .
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  9. 05-16-2002, 09:37 PM #8
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    Originally posted by clifgriffin


    No, but I'll report you if you do.

    This reminds me of the 12 year old that got charged with attempted murder when a rock he threw off an overpass blinded a priest.


    How does a 12 year old get attempted murder for being a kid??

    Crazy. . .

    hmmmm throwing rocks off an over pass at oncomming cars? well in a perfect world we could just give the kid a beating and blind both of the parents.

    guess that should have been MY perfect world
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    Originally posted by TallGuyLittleCar
    Originally posted by clifgriffin


    No, but I'll report you if you do.

    This reminds me of the 12 year old that got charged with attempted murder when a rock he threw off an overpass blinded a priest.


    How does a 12 year old get attempted murder for being a kid??

    Crazy. . .

    hmmmm throwing rocks off an over pass at oncomming cars? well in a perfect world we could just give the kid a beating and blind both of the parents.

    guess that should have been MY perfect world
    Uhmm... <makes note>Don't elect tallguy to any office.</m>

    I just don't think this kid was "attempting murder".

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    Originally posted by clifgriffin
    a rock he threw off an overpass
    ... You threw bricks off overpasses when you were 'young', didn't you???
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    I only threw water bombs at cars when I was little and that was it. No rocks.
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    Originally posted by clifgriffin

    Uhmm... <makes note>Don't elect tallguy to any office.</m>

    I just don't think this kid was "attempting murder".

    o.k. manslaughter then. well to be honest at 12 the parents are at fault. but the kid is already most likely ruined.

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    Originally posted by LanSite
    Originally posted by clifgriffin
    a rock he threw off an overpass
    ... You threw bricks off overpasses when you were 'young', didn't you???
    Me? My parents didn't let me near an overpass by myself when I was 12.

    Tall guy. Manslaughter is probably more fair. I'm not sure the parents are at fault. The kid is still responsible for his actions. The parents definently should have supervised hime/taught him better.

    Punishing the parents isn't a good practice though...
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    Originally posted by clifgriffin
    Punishing the parents isn't a good practice though...
    What on earth makes you say that?
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    Originally posted by LanSite
    Originally posted by clifgriffin
    Punishing the parents isn't a good practice though...
    What on earth makes you say that?
    I'm saying the parents didn't throw the rock..the kid did.

    Are we going to charge the parents of those 10 year olds who tortured that 2 year old a couple of years ago?

    Just my opinion of course. . .
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    Originally posted by clifgriffin

    Punishing the parents isn't a good practice though...
    and why not? whom then is responsible for the education of the child? If not the parents then that leaves the government? Yikes!!!!!
    At what age does the child become responsible for his or her own actions?

    rotten kids ALWAYS come from rotten parents.
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    Originally posted by TallGuyLittleCar
    Originally posted by clifgriffin

    Punishing the parents isn't a good practice though...
    and why not? whom then is responsible for the education of the child? If not the parents then that leaves the government? Yikes!!!!!
    At what age does the child become responsible for his or her own actions?

    rotten kids ALWAYS come from rotten parents.
    I don't know what that age would be. Should be on a case by case bases proably.
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