McDonald v. State

RUCKER, Justice.

Background

Along with seventeen-year-old Hanna Stone and her eighteen-year-old boyfriend Spenser Krempetz, seventeen-year-old Aaron McDonald concocted a plan to rob and kill Stone’s mother, Barbara Keim. Apparently Stone, who hatched this idea, was irritated that her mother did not approve of her relationship with Krempetz. McDonald was promised $400 for his efforts. The trio executed the plan, which resulted in accosting Keim in her home, binding and gagging her, driving Keim to a bank ATM from which she was forced to withdraw $200 — the maximum amount the machine allowed —…