Defiant to the end, Jasmine Lewis, 17, loudly proclaimed there was never any intention to kill Jeff Brentlinger in the early hours of Thanksgiving Day.
Jasmine Lewis, 17, left, emphatically states during her sentencing hearing Thursday she never intended to harm the late Jeffrey Brentlinger. (EXAMINER PHOTO | JOEL E. MAST)
She was just a young girl led astray by an older boyfriend, she told Assigned Judge Mark S. O’Connor before he sentenced her Thursday to life in prison.
“I wasn’t the one to shoot him,” she said during the Logan County Common Pleas Court hearing.
However, she never apologized for her actions which initiated the contact with the slain 45-year-old victim.
Her defiance and seeming lack of remorse throughout multiple court appearances irked Brentlinger’s survivors. She has slouched in court and even tried to doze off in a juvenile courtroom. She also has smiled during proceedings and snickered when a video of events leading up to the shooting was played before Family Court Judge Kim Kellogg-Martin.
“She has disrespected my father’s memory,” said Kelsie Brentlinger in court. “I hope she smiles going to prison.”
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