http://www.omaha.com/article/20110130/NEWS97/701309858#this-sentencing-one-for-the-booksPublished Sunday January 30, 2011
By Todd Cooper
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
It was the zaniest sentencing hearing several attorneys had seen.
In Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon’s courtroom last week, Princeston Scott sat convicted of shooting his stepdad three times.
Now, a young man shooting his stepdad three times is strange, but that wasn’t the zany part of this case.
Nor was it that the wounded stepdad sat just seven chairs away from his ex-wife, who has a protection order that prohibits him from being within 100 feet of her. Nor that the ex-wife wagged a finger in her ex-husband’s face.
Nor that the judge thrice declared Scott a “knucklehead” — and then got into a debate with Scott’s mother over whether her son truly was one.
No, the zany part of the sentencing was this: After Bataillon described the sordid family feud, one man stood up, took the blame and apologized for his actions.
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