PLEA IN SCHOOL BOMBING PLOT MAN, 18, FACES 5 YEARS IN VALENTINE'S DAY PLAN.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- An 18-year-old man pleaded no contest Thursday to his role ascribed to him in planning a Columbine-style attack on Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. at Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). , a scheme thwarted by a student who told a school administrator. Johnny Alvarez Casas will be sentenced next month, having entered his plea before Judge Lisa Chung to conspiracy to commit a crime and possession of bomb-making ingredients. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 18 in Antelope Valley Superior Court to five years in state prison. Casas and a 16-year-old boy acquired bomb-making instructions off the Internet and were planning the Feb. 14 attack that included shooting students and using improvised explosive devices, investigators said. They were arrested in December 2005 after a girl contacted a Quartz Hill High vice principal. Casas, originally charged as a juvenile, was charged as an adult after a Sylmar Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial judge in April found that he was unfit to be tried as a juvenile. The second youth, who will be 17 next month, faces one count each of conspiracy to commit murder and making a criminal threat, and remains in custody. His adjudication The legal process of resolving a dispute. The formal giving or pronouncing of a judgment or decree in a court proceeding; also the judgment or decision given. The entry of a decree by a court in respect to the parties in a case. hearing, the equivalent to a court trial for an adult, is pending. He is scheduled to appear Jan.4 in Lancaster court for a pretrial conference A meeting of the parties to an action and their attorneys held before the court prior to the commencement of actual courtroom proceedings. A pretrial conference is a meeting of the parties to a case conducted prior to trial. . |
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