Van der Sloot back in Peruvian court to face murder charge
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff
January 10, 2012
Van der Sloot back in Peruvian court to face murder charge
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Joran van der Sloot returns to a Peruvian courtroom on Wednesday, five days after requesting more time to "reflect" on what plea he will make in his murder trial.
The 24-year-old Dutch national indicated on Friday that he was willing to make a "confession" in the 2010 killing of Stephany Flores, but that he did "not agree with the aggravating factors" as defined in the murder charge levied against him.
Given this statement, the panel of three judges decided to give van der Sloot until Wednesday to make a final decision. There is no jury.
This was the latest twist in a case that has made international headlines, in part because of the circumstances of the killing but also because van der Sloot was arrested twice, but never charged, in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/10/world/americas/peru-van-der-sloot/
This guy is one sick SOB!
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So, two years were shaved off the sentence because he'd been agitated the day he killed Flores - agitated because it was the five-year anniversary of the death of Natalie Holloway - whom he'd also murdered.
Yes, that makes sense. 