State Vs. Stu Dents

State v. Stu Dents

A murder committed, an obsession that had a fatal effect, one woman’s life taken, and a man who is to blame who has a warped mind. In today’s society we never know what will happen to our friends, family or to our self from one minute to the next.  A person we think we know and trust can in reality turn out to have a mental problem and by the time this is discovered it may be too late.  The human brain is a wonderment of life.  It can store more information and data than the world’s greatest computer.  It is also a frail and vital part of our life and is how we make our life decisions every day. Sometimes we have an accident that causes our brain to become damaged and while there are some who can recover there are many that will have to be watched and cared for like a child for the rest of their life.  Then there are those that have their mental capacity of good and evil, right and wrong, fantasy and reality confused.  These people sometimes do not realize their actions cause harm and in some cases death to others as a result of their way of thinking.

When the police arrested Stu Dents on October the 21st not only did they do a service by getting a confused mentally disturbed man off the streets they also brought closure to the case of a  murdered woman.  This woman was a music store worker named Uma Opee.  Mr. Dents had an obsession for her that turned fatal.  Ms. Opee was found bound, gagged, and stabbed 13 times bleeding to death.  Mr. Dents was found guilty of Homicide, Assault of a police officer, Kidnapping, and crimes related to drugs.  The Pros of these charges are:

With the mental capacity of Mr. Dents thinking he was God and the police were aliens the sentencing proposal I would hand to him would not reflect this. No professional had Mr. Dents tested for insanity or a diminished mental understanding.  For the charge of homicide my proposal would be that this crime can range from manslaughter to murder and different degrees depending on the severity I would charge him with first degree murder as this was intentional and premeditated by him.  An aggravating factor was the act was hideous as Ms. Opee’s body showed signs of a struggle along with being bound, gagged, stabbed, and left to die.  I would propose the sentence of life without the possibility of parole.  For the charge of assaulting a police officer as Mr. Dents was not of a stable mindset, and the police officer did not receive any bodily harm when punched in the face I would charge him with felony battery on a Police Officer which carries a prison term of one year or more.  Even though Mr. Dents was scared and confused thinking the officer cuffing him at the time was an alien, he still should have considered the outcome of his actions.  I would have sentenced him to one year in prison as there was not bodily harm to the officer.  For the charge of Kidnapping this has to be thought upon. There was no physical proof that he had forced her to go with him against her will which is kidnapping, and no one had seen them together the day of her death.  The last time Ms. Opee had been seen was by her co-workers at 5:10pm when she left work.   Kidnapping also can be charged when a person is bound and placed in a confined space.  Being bound and placed in the abandoned building would fall within the realm of kidnapping.  Kidnapping is a felony offense and carries a sentence of 20 years or more in prison.  Since this was a hideous crime and she fought to get away from Mr. Dents and escape form where she had been taken to I would propose a charge of 20 years.