A diagnosis of Asperger syndrome was apparently enough to get a judge in Greenville, South Carolina (US) to accept the manslaughter plea of 18 year old Joshua David McEachern based on a claim of "guilty but mentally ill" in the shooting death of McEachern's own mother on Mother's Day 2011. McEachern also pleaded guilty to attempted murder for shooting his brother in the chest three times on the same occasion. On September 5, 2012 McEachern was sentenced to 27 years in prison for the crimes. Read more about it at waff.com here:
http://www.waff.com/story/19470853/teen-who-killed-mom-on-mothers-day-sentenced?clienttype=printable
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