Rachel Shannon

So your life got spared because of your childhood.

Yet Reagan did nothing wrong whatsoever.

And yet she forfeited her life because of your background.

You get spared because of your background.

And yet she forfeited her life.

She did nothing wrong except be at work.

After his initial sentencing, the prosecution on the case actually filed a 53 page motion asking for the death penalty to be reconsidered on this case.

The prosecution argued that it was because of a legal error that the jury felt that Brian's past was enough to say that he didn't deserve the death penalty.

They said that the jury were told that the defense had no burden of proof when presenting mitigating factors.

This meant that the defense could basically make things up about Brian's past that may or may not have actually happened.

The prosecutors used Brian's alleged rape as an example.

They said that in his stories telling about the rape, he would sometimes say he was 10, other times he would say he was 12, and another time he said he was 13 when it took place.

the location of the alleged rape were also inconsistent with him sometimes saying that it happened in a store sometimes it happened behind a store sometimes it happened on the street they said that the jury couldn't have considered that these stories could have been made up meaning that they fully believed that he was raped and that that was enough to be a mitigating factor this case was argued in front of multiple courts but it ended up being denied

They said that they felt that the jury was given proper instruction.

This decision was appealed by prosecutors saying that Brian is a cold-blooded, remorseless killer who got a lesser sentence because of things that may have never actually happened.

At this point, the case has not made it to the Supreme Court, but I believe they are planning to take it as far as the case will go.

Of course, after all of this, Reagan's family were also furious at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, as well as the parent company that oversees the exit program that housed Brian.

In May of 2018, they actually filed a lawsuit that claims both entities were negligent and failed to adequately monitor Brian, which led directly to Reagan's murder.

And I have to say, I do agree.

He was committing crime after crime after crime for days leading up to her murder.