Jury rejects murderer's claim of Grand Theft Auto influence

Im glad the case was regected! What an idiot!

serves the bastard right. i hope he fries.

What a creep. Just because I played Kirby 64 doesn't mean I try to float in the sky or eat people to gain their abilities. That would be reeeeeeeally stupid.

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damn, this guy is sick. a game doesnt influence murder, well maybe in a ten year old who is immature but he is a grown man. hope he burns in hell

nonoitall: it would be reeeeeeeeeeally stupid, but damn funky if you could...or with the new DS game where you draw that coloured line...imagine people floating about on coloured lines....lol. this guy was stupid. period. Dan x

We let our 4 year old son play this game on a very rare occasion, and even he knows that it is fake and you can go to jail if you do things like that in real life. If this guy can't tell the difference at 20, then they may want to take a look at his parents....If he has yonger siblings, then they meed some drastic help.

You lets your 4 year old kid play that game! Thats nuts!

Finally a person is being made to accept responsibility for their own actions instead of being able to pass the blame. For years now people have been trying to blame everything but themselves for the their own doings. First it was heavy metal, then rap, then movies and TV, and now video games. Its a sad world we live in.....

Pure crazy

YOU GUYS THINK YOU KNOW SOOOO MUCH TRY DOIN 2 SHEETS OF ACID PLAY SAN ANDREAS AND TELL ME IF YOU WOULDNT GO POP OFF 3 COPS

ssxm, get out. i aint even gonna say bout u wat i wana say cuz i dnt wana get reported or kicked out... but, to put it diplomatically, no, onone here (i hope) in their right minds would take a gun 2 a cop. if u ever gona fire a bullet, make sure u point it 2 your throat. that will get you higher than high u sick warped tw*t

calm down old man ...thats all i have to say to you

I love war movies but don`t even own a gun,don`t blame the media for your acts.

@ ssxm your a F**!

No I wouldn't ssxm! Are you out of your mind. If you really be lieve that, you don't deserve much better then this idoit got here!! Folks like you is why our American society is going to h*ll. Do yourself a favour and quit posting stuff like this. Duketown

Let me Clarify myself a little.....My son take the guy in the water and drives the car.....he watches his Dad and his 15 year old sister play.....none the less.... he still knows the difference between right and wrong. And as for the guy who does acid....I agree with the statement that you deserve about as much if not more then the other guy got.

Anyone that takes 2 sheets of acid is gonna try to kill anything that comes in contact with him/her. (ssxm) duh.

all i have 2 say is that guy is an idiot the game didnt make him do anything

what a jackass i've been playing grand theft auto grames since the gta 3 and every time a new gta comes out you here or some surt or crap like that some dummass gets the idea in there head to do something that they know thay cant do but they do it anyway and blame it in the game but i'm glad that that throw it out

OH GOD SOMEONE HELP ME i just got done playing MAPPY for 24 straight hours and now i cant stop slamming my cat in the face with the door and why wont my dam mice bounce on the trampoline .......Must do what game tells me...... and i have this incredible erge to pop balloons ??? hmmm They should put Devin Moore in the next GTA as some kinda sex dominatrix's bitch LMFAO

what an idiot!!! someone tell him to come back down from cloud 9 to earth!!!

ssxm: erm...u realise that reeeeeally wouldnt stand as an excuse in a court of law right?i can just imagine you trying ot use that as an legitimate excuse. It's your responsibility that you take the acid, therefore , your actions are the results of YOU and nothing else sorry buddy. If you don't like that, don't take the acid, or don't kill the police officer. It's up to you. I can see you behind bars one day. (yelling: 'it was the acid maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!let me out!' Dan x

i agree man just cause i play doom and castle womfenstein does not mean u am gonna fly over to germany and hunt for some facist to kill nake me sick people always triing to get out of taking responsibilty for their actions PS if video games cause people to kill then their would be a lot of dead people

I thought that when you kill cops in GTA, they still end up chasing you until you get caught and goto gaol. I bet they never mentioned that part!

I really hope that anyone wants to pawn off murderous activities on our games learns from this.

LoLx3

if you actually ate 2 whole sheets of acid you wouldn't be playing a damn thing, you'd be dead. 2 hits maybe, but no way you ate 2 sheets. uuummm, dont ask me how i know about that kinda thing, but 6-7 hits is about the limit where people turn into a bumbling puddle of mess (unless it was made very poorly).

Agreed.

how stupid people can be these days just watching or playing grand theft auto that's stupid and how dare him blame rockstar games.

janmw5 if they have all the fowl langauge in those versions of GTA like San Andreas does you shouldnot be letting your 4 year old play that game. Maybe he is mature for his age but my 2 year old son happended to walk into the room while i was playing GTA SA and heard @.... and @.... was the next word out of his mouth. I dont play those kind of games around him or my 5 year old nephew. I am not blaming the game it was my fault he heard the word and I try to make sure he is nowhere to be found when i play GTA SA. Just my opinion that GTA is a little too mature for a 4 years old. I am sure that even though you and your spouse watch him their are hundreds of others games more appropiate that he could be allowed to play. ssxm I am not even mad at you man. I use to wonder how it was possible to look in the newspapers everyday and always be pretty much sure to see someone got murdered or something. I surely dont agree with you but i know sadly that there always has to be someone dumb enough to take someone elses life, rape, rob or steal from people, or even beat their spouses in this world. Evidently you fit into that criteria. They have a prison waiting for sick individuals like yourself. Neo1000 is right. It is time for society to stop blaming video games for their childrens actions and start accepting the blame for their child's actions. I know that their are always exceptions to the rule even when a child comes up in a good home things can go wrong or mental defects can cause some actions but I am talking to you parents out their that let your children throw a temper fit at 6 years of age while out in public, let your children curse talk back and disrepect you and the rest of the world and then give that pathetic excuse. I cant make my child mind. There is a right and a wrong way to rear a child. Too little disclipine and you got a problem. Too much disclipine and you also have a problem. I love violent games and have been playing them since age 15 when Mortal Kombat was first released. Those of you out there who blame the actions of a 15 year old on video games need to confront the real problem before it is too late. You need to look into the mirror and fix the problem at the roots.

It all started when we stopped spanking our kids, that was the generation that started carrying guns and shooting people in the face for fun or for a stupid gang thing. now those idiots are having babies of their own and the cycle is just going to get worse. come on people, beat your children when the deserve it!! (and no locking them in a closet aint cool either, i just mean a good open handed swat on the ass)

what you mean with a swap on a@@ my old man hits me with wires,belts, anything that was painfull any were so please don't talk about hitting kids that's why they become gangsters

Good thing the kid didn't have Whacko Jakos legal team, or he would have got off on this defense. The best justice money can buy!

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come on people, beat your children when the deserve it!!

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please don't talk about hitting kids that's why they become gangsters

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please don't talk about hitting kids that's why they become gangsters

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my old man had a thick ass leather belt and could have it off and formed to the proper kid beating position in exactly .0542 seconds

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maybe ssxm will start playing a flying game and go jump off a really tall building somewhere. Im currently a police officer in the state of alabama, and was a police officer in Tuscaloosa city at the time of the murders. Tuscaloosa is actually only about 30 min. or so from where the murders took place (fayette, AL). I personally didnt know either of the two officers or the one dispatcher that was killed by this nut. But there were several officers I worked with that were close friends of one or more of the fallen. RIP.....

Hmmmmmmm.... I remember about a hundred years ago - after losing a game of pong, I felt like beating the neighbour's cat up. Boink.......boink....*Beep!*, *Beep!*....... (boink, boink).... *** GAME OVER - YOU LOSE! *** I think it ran off two penlight cells or something. Do you suppose this means I have violent tendencies? (Hmmmmm)..........

to be brutaly honest how the **** do 3 cops with training in an academy get murdered by a stupid kid ?? go figure ...

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to be brutaly honest how the **** do 3 cops with training in an academy get murdered by a stupid kid ??

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mxndemon, there could be a thousand scenarios how this could happen. I deal withit every single day on the job but just have to accept the fact that officers could die at anytime. On alot of occasions the only way to perform a simple duty of letting a inmate take a shower can turn deadly. But i can tell you this..... for starters officers should never be allowed to carry there weapons into area where they will could be having direct contact with inmates. I've been an officer for 8 years now and have seen many ify situations. First they need to look at there holsters level of retention. I would imagine that it was more than likely a level one holster that belonged to the officer that got his gun taken away. the second officer may have possily not had his weapon with him due to him following policy and locking his down in the wall safe. then ofcouse the dispatcher prolly had no weapon at all. Like I said, if you cant understand how this could happen to any trained professional, then you have not lived enough to realize all the possiblities. and the logic that could be involved in incidents such as this.

he might of had more of a case if he was actually playing the game at the time he killed the police officers.you know when youre on a critical mission and one of those damn cops intentionally hits your car so he can have an excuse to turn on his lights and try to arrest you.then you end up running from the cops and not completeing the mission(damn that pisses me off!).so then he took his anger out on real cops.he be like..."why you cops always interfering with my missions?!"..bang bang bang. he would still be liable for the murders but he wouldnt look like as much as a jackass trying to blame the game.though he would still be a jackass.

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i thought kids became gangsters because they wanted to start a rap group and make millions of dollars rapping about being in a gang.that gang association sh*t is blown out of proportion.i guess most people assume the us is overrun with gangs or something.it aint as bad as you think. usually kids that get abused really bad kill their parents or go on a rampage that has nothing to do with being in a gang.they have emotional problems is what im saying.i spent some time in germany when i was a teenager and the older germans would openly scold other peoples children.i thought that was funny because in america if someone scolded someone elses kid that person would catch an ass kickin even if the kid was doing wrong.

This company is selling top quality video games and the guy publicly takes a steamin heap on it.Just terrible!

I guess he should play 25 to Life now.No wait,stay away from it!!

i think 25 to life is what he'll be doing.

I think violent people are caused because of the lack of atention of their parents,you see the father and the mother both work and don`t have time to look out for their children.It wuold be better if one of them works and the other stayed at home,it doesn`t matter if it`s anyone of them.

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you see the father and the mother both work and don`t have time to look out for their children.It wuold be better if one of them works and the other stayed at home

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And I've seen families where one parent is home, and let me tell you some of those kids are just as bad.

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This %$#@ing scumbag should get the needle. I play Vice City for like an hour a day, and sickos like this give video game escapism a bad name. Sounds like he was trying to quote Tom Berenger's character of Sgt. Barnes from Platoon with the "...everybody has to die sometime." When that prick lawyer argued that a kid beat a little girl to death because of the WWF, the WWF (now WWE) sued for slander, and won. Rockstar Games and their affiliates would be smart to do the same, being as how the defense lost a case with that crap. Sets a great precident.

Spanking and other physical types of discipline is garbage! Parents that spank their children don't know how to discipline their kids in a civilized way so they beat them because it's easier. Or they just can't control their own. It's a copout from talking to them. By hitting your kids your not teaching them anything your just making them afraid of you. If you raise your children in a environment where violence is sometimes a solution then that's how they are going to react to other people. Kids who are physically disciplined are more likely to become violent people themselves. Of course discipline is absolutely necesary but it shouldn't be done by inflicting pain. Talk to them for godsake's, take away their toys(such as game consoles) or privillages. Anyway kids that commit these sort of crimes are not kids that are grounded instead of spanked or kids that have parents that are too "soft" on them. Their kids whose parents are simply not there. Or not involved in their kids lives.

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Parents that spank their children don't know how to discipline their kids in a civilized way so they beat them because it's easier

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Talk to them for godsake's, take away their toys(such as game consoles) or privillages.

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Kids have to learn to fear getting in trouble

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@___: A spanking isn't "violence" or not "civilized". A kid will "get over" a spanking just as easily as they will get over having a priviledge taken away. Besides, using your logic, whenever you take away a toy or whatever, you're using stealing to solve the problem. When murderers get sent to prison, kidnapping is used to solve the problem. Any punishment in the world can be made to seem criminal with the right wording. My parents spanked me many, many times. I don't hate them. I'm not afraid of them. I love them. They weren't afraid of doing what it took to get a lesson across. I've seen kids with parents that spank them and I've seen kids with parents that just give their kids a timeout or take away a toy or something. As an almost perfect rule, the ones that get spanked behave better and grow up to be more responsible adults. Punishment needs to leave a lasting impression to be effective.

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My parents spanked me many, many times. I don't hate them. I'm not afraid of them. I love them. They weren't afraid of doing what it took to get a lesson across.

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you think there is a market for a spanking service.you could hire someone to come over your house and spank your kids for you.that way your kids wont fear you.they would fear you calling the person that is gonna spank them.kinda like telling them the boogieman is gonna get them if they dont behave.that way they dont associate getting spanked with you.besides unemployment is rampant and we could use new jobs.

sad as it must be for the familys for the police officers what were they thinking if I sneeze around a cop they pull a gun maybe its the new pc police the ones who ask why or how come , not like those old ones that yell and point a gun at you and say things like hold it police or hands up or even risk firing that one Barney bullet ( maybe we send their bullets to iraq ) sad they tried to blame a video game why not blame a shitty game like drug wars 2 or wolfinstine or something like that GTA has gotten over the hot coffee issue and now more free plubisity for Rockstar makes you think that the next GTA game must be ready for release...

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Amen. It was the aame with me.

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Nah, my old man beat me so bad I can't spell anymore :P

Video games are just a easy way out for criminals! I play games and kill over 100 people a day on the game and that dosent give me the urge to go out and kill in real life!

All you people are just arguing over nothing. Let me put it to you plain and simple,the kids are going to do what they want... I don't care what you say, you can only begin to show them the way. The child has to make their own desicion to do whats right. You spank the sh#t outa little Bobby... he's still gonna do what he wants. You give little Susie a lecture on something you think is right or wrong... little Susie has to make that decision. "You can only show them the way..the right path to be traveled."

I couldn't agree more goodswipe.

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You spank the sh#t outa little Bobby

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You give little Susie a lecture

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Thanks sui-cyco, that's exactly my point! Like I said they are going to do what they want.

These people are the kind of idiots who need an excuse for being messed up in the head. I feel sorry for the creators of these kind of games having to put up with so much hassle over something that quite plainly, an adult game. It was meant for adults, it shouldn't be sold to anyone BUT adults. Rockstar should take no responsibility for these kind of incidents, because it is nothing to do with them. They ratings state that you MUST be 18, to even play the game, -Mike

yeah,whats the freakin difference,MA or AO?you still have to be over 18 to buy it(in the us).

Nope, to buy MA you need to be 17

big difference,one year.like anybody is gonna card you for a game anyway.you cant buy beer until youre 21 but they still sell it at wal mart.so technically beer is rated xxx.

My fiance and I are pretty young at the age of 24 and so he is still in to games like GTA and Silent Hill and stuff like that. His younger brothers are 12 and 14 and the 14 year old asked to play GTA and he told him no, it isn't a game you should playing until you can buy it yourself. His mom won't buy him the game because of what My fiance told her about the game.

A lot of reaons kids play these games is because the parents don't check the ratings they just buy them because the kids want them. The Parents need to take responsibility for there kids and the choices they make about the movies they watch and the games that they play. That is what being a parent is about. BEING RESPONSIBLE. I have a 6 year and a 2 year old and we only get him games that are rated for him to play. I know that kids are influenced by a lot of different stuff now days and if i'm the only one standing between my kid and an M rated game that he wants I'll be standing there until I don't have a say.

@vtecbaby-your fiance is right in not letting his little bro play. The game is pretty much for adults only, and unlike the other GTA games in the series, is unsuitable for people younger than 17

You know you play way too much GTA if you do any of the following: 1. Spray paint buildings 2. Partake in drive by shootings 3. Break into houses 4. Kill random people and police officers 5. Kill random people and police officers then blame it on GTA 6. Have a flame thrower and/or sniper rifle in your closet 7. Take your car out and try to drive on water 8. Can't come home because you are on a vigilante mission 9. Call yourself CJ 10. Instinctively steal a car when your current car makes odd engine sounds

Too funny lol. my fiance has to read that

Dont take your car out and try to drive on water your insurance won't cover it even if you tell them you seen it in GTA. But for real with your kids all you can do is spend as much quality time as you can, show them right from wrong and hope for the best or at least that they dont do all the stuff you did.

They better make more GTA games, i hope they wont stop all cuz of this influence shizz and "hot coffee mods stuff" gta is a good game just to take anger out or if you just feal like stealing cool cars or cop chases or anything else you can think of, The glitches to lol, let the GTA series go on, seriously!

Yea i hope they bring out GTA on the PS3. It'd it be rockin, fo shizzle, ya nar mean? Photo realism graphics too. Gotta have the realism. Jerks like the one who blamed GTA could ruin it all. He's obviously a few shrimp short of a barbie. Not right in the head. P.s theres a difference between spanking and beating. so long as u dont get the 2 confused, spank away.

i agree with "pippa"lol go gta go