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An 18-year-old Michigan man is on trial for murder, charged with beheading a 26-year-old-victim last November.
Now, it appears that his attorneys will claim that Jean Pierre Orlewicz (left) was under the influence of Eidos’ Hitman when he stabbed and decapitated 26-year-old Daniel Sorensen.
CNN’s Jean Casarez is covering the trial and mentions the Hitman defense in a video report filed yesterday. From the video:
"We’ve heard some testimony today that’s very interesting… Before the killing took place… J.P. Orlewicz, the defendant, used to say, †I want to commit a crime… and not get caught and be able to get away with it… So now we see the mindset of a young man that is fixated on doing harm, according to the prosecution witnesses. Fixated on committing a crime… Because you wonder how something like this can happen…
How did the defense deal with that? They dealt with it with a video game called Hitman that he used to watch, and it was a video game where you got impressions that you would kill somebody, hit them from their back side where they were not aware that they were being killed. And, so the defense is probably going to focus on that there was not a true intent to commit a crime, just a fixation with this video game."
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*sigh* this is why they want to ban video games
Now, it appears that his attorneys will claim that Jean Pierre Orlewicz (left) was under the influence of Eidos’ Hitman when he stabbed and decapitated 26-year-old Daniel Sorensen.
CNN’s Jean Casarez is covering the trial and mentions the Hitman defense in a video report filed yesterday. From the video:
"We’ve heard some testimony today that’s very interesting… Before the killing took place… J.P. Orlewicz, the defendant, used to say, †I want to commit a crime… and not get caught and be able to get away with it… So now we see the mindset of a young man that is fixated on doing harm, according to the prosecution witnesses. Fixated on committing a crime… Because you wonder how something like this can happen…
How did the defense deal with that? They dealt with it with a video game called Hitman that he used to watch, and it was a video game where you got impressions that you would kill somebody, hit them from their back side where they were not aware that they were being killed. And, so the defense is probably going to focus on that there was not a true intent to commit a crime, just a fixation with this video game."
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*sigh* this is why they want to ban video games