Lot’s of activity in the case of John Odgren. He’s the teen who is accused of stabbing 15-year-old James Alenson to death in the bathroom of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. He’s claiming Asperger’s (or in this case the sandwich of doom known as AssBurgers) as his defense. Like I’ve said before Asperger’s does not make one a homicidal psychopath. So from now on anyone that claims Asperger’s as a defense gets the Sandwich of Doom labeling.

Anyway, the latest is that Odgren’s lawyer claims his client’s rights were violated when his prison phone calls were recorded. Excuse my lack of a lawyerin’ degree but I thought that was standard practice in prisons and that it was clearly posted that the calls were being recorded.

Oh, I see, Odgren’s lawyer argues that Odgren has a child’s mind and is not developed enough to legally waive his right to be recorded. That’s funny. I heard that he was a Wile E. Coyote Super Genius who happened to have a passion for crime scene investigations. Does that sound like a child’s mind to you?

However, the DA was quick to point out that during the conversations a recorded message played saying “This call is subject to monitoring and recording.”

In one of the recordings, Odgren allegedly says that the real killer is out there and that he’s being persecuted. And here I thought that Johnnie Cochran was no longer with us. If the sandwich fits you must acquit.

In another conversation, Odgren seems to even try to rationalize James Alenson’s murder…

“The worst that could possibly happen is manslaughter, because I didn’t know him, it wasn’t a crime of passion and it wasn’t premeditated.”

Again, not sounding too much like an innocent.

More on this as I have the time.