MAN GETS 25 TO 50 YEARS IN `JENNY JONES' CASE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A man convicted of killing a gay admirer who had revealed his crush and hugged him on the ``Jenny Jones Jenny Jones could be:
Jonathan Schmitz Jonathan Schmitz (born July 18, 1970) is a convicted murderer who, in 1996, was sentenced to prison for 25-50 years. Schmitz killed Scott Amedure three days after the two men appeared on a March 6, 1995 episode ("Same-Sex Secret Crushes") of The Jenny Jones Show , 26, faced a life sentence for the murder of Scott Amedure in a case that focused attention on ``ambush television'' and the tactics TV producers use to bring guests onto daytime talk shows. ``I'd like to say the word sorry,'' Schmitz told Judge Francis X. O'Brien before his sentence. ``The word `sorry' is a very powerful word. It has a lot of meaning, and it is meant.'' The judge said he took Schmitz's illnesses into account - his defense lawyers said he had been fighting alcoholism, depression and a thyroid thyroid /thy·roid/ (thi´roid) 1. the thyroid gland; see under gland. 2. pertaining to the thyroid gland. 3. scutiform. 4. condition when the show's producers ambushed him and pushed him over the edge. |
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