“There is no doubt there was a terrible, terrible, awful wrong done,” Boggs said.
But he asked the jurors to confront their definitions of justice as they weighed whether to convict the teenager of second-degree murder, which carries a mandatory life-in-prison sentence. Boggs argued Honore had been failed by his parents.
“I am going to come to you and say, let’s not throw away another life,” he said.