Attorney: Teenager who plotted school shooting deserves bail
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A teenager charged with planning a shooting at his former high school never carried out the crime and should be granted bail, his lawyer argued before a state Supreme Court panel on Tuesday.
The attorney for Jack Sawyer argued that while Sawyer made preparations for a shooting at the Fair Haven Union High School he didn't take any concrete steps that under Vermont law would justify charges including attempted aggravated murder, which allows a judge to reject bail.
"The evidence in this case shows that the defendant had no plans to commit the target offense for at least a month at the time he was arrested," said attorney Marshall Pahl, who's representing Sawyer in his appeal to the Supreme Court.