Mimesis Law Podcast

Aug. 12, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, the Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a classmate last year, are a step closer to being tried as adults. A Wisconsin Circuit Judge Michael Bohren denied both of the girls’ petitions calling for the proceedings to continue in the juvenile justice system. In May 2014, at the age of 12, the girls allegedly lured their friend into the woods before stabbing her more than 19 times with a kitchen knife. Geyser and Weier claimed that they wanted to kill Payton Leutner in obedience to Slenderman, a fictional character from the Creepypasta horror stories. Read more at MimesisLaw.com  Mimesis' Between The Lines | Monitoring the Cracks in America's Criminal Justice System Between The Lines is the podcast digest of Fault Lines: columns written by lawyers that examine the current crisis in American criminal justice from the perspective of those who know the system best. Black Lives Matter movement, prison reform, capital punishm