July 15, 1999, was a normal night for Kristopher Lohrmeyer as he left work at the Colorado City Creamer, a popular ice cream shop. Kristopher had no idea his life was about to end. When Michael Brown, 17, Derrick Miller and Andrew (Andy) Medina, 15, approached Kristopher and demanded his money and car keys. Before the boys knew it, shots had been fired and Kristopher was dead. About an hour after the fatal shooting of Kristopher Lohrmeyer, all three men were in custody and telling their versions of the night's events. Michael and Derrick, who had fled after the shooting, confessed to the police and named Andy as the perpetrator of the shooting. According to the testimony of the three boys, they had only recently met and needed to escape to make some quick money, so they developed a car theft plan and headed to Andy's house to collect 2 stolen guns . The three boys were uneducated and had spent most of their time on the streets looking for drugs. The judge ruled that they would be held without bail and there was probable cause to charge them all with first degree murder (Thrown Away, 2005). Michael and Derrick both struck a deal in exchange for implicating Andy as the shooter. shots. Under Colorado's murder crime rule, Andy could be found guilty of first-degree murder just for simply participating in a violent crime. Of the three boys, Andy would be the only one to be tried for first-degree murder, which could carry a mandatory life sentence without parole. In May 2001, Andy went to court, and after a brief deliberation, the jury found Andy guilty of robbery and first-degree murder. Andy has been serving his sentence in the Colorado State Penitentiary, the state's highest security prison, for the past 9 years... half of the document... uence (1996). Cohen, Lawrence E., and James R. Kluegel. “The Detention Decision: A Study of the Impact of Social Characteristics and Legal Factors.” Social Forces September 1979: 146-177.Gebo, Erika. "A Family Affair: Juvenile Court and Family Violence Cases." Juvenile family violence June 30, 2007: 501-509. Larry H. Gaines, Roger Leroy Miller. Criminal justice in action. Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, 2009.Pyne, Derek. “When is it effective to treat juvenile offenders more leniently than adult offenders?” Economic government. Springer-Verlag, 20 July 2010. Reuters, Thomson. Find Law. 2011. .Soulier, Matthew F. and Scott L. Charles. "Juveniles in court." Harvard Review of Psychiatry (November 2010): 317-325. Throw yourself away. February 1, 2005. United States Department of Justice - Office of Justice Programs. December 1st 2011