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In 2014, she “tried to kill her best friend because she believed that, if she did not, Slender Man would kill her or her family,” according to the brief.Īnissa Weier joined Geyser in the stabbing of their friend Payton Leutner on the morning of May 31, 2014, after they had a sleepover together. Geyser, now 16, also wants the state appeals court “to conclude that her statements were obtained in violation of her constitutional rights.”
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“The juvenile court, not the adult court, had exclusive jurisdiction over her crime, and the circuit court should have discharged her adult-court case following her preliminary hearing,” the brief states. (RICK WOOD/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via pool) Morgan Geyser, who was 12 when she and Anissa Weier plotted to kill their sixth-grade classmate in 2014, appears for sentencing before Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren on Feb. In the 46-page brief filed Thursday in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Morgan Geyser’s attorney Matthew Pinix, a partner at Milwaukee-based law firm Pinix & Soukup, asserts that the Waukesha County Circuit Court never should have tried her in adult court given Geyser’s mental illness. (CN) – A Wisconsin teenager convicted of the attempted murder of her classmate at the behest of fictional boogeyman Slenderman has appealed her sentence of 40 years in a mental institution, arguing her mental condition led to unfair proceedings.