State v. Brown

SCHWARTZMAN, Judge.

Eric Scott Brown pled guilty to First Degree Murder, I.C. §§ 18-4001, 4003, and Grand Theft by Possession of Stolen Property, I.C. §§ 18-2403, 2407.

The charges stem from a one-day incident on April 26, 1995, in which the seventeen-year-old Brown and his fifteen-year-old accomplice escaped from the Mountain Home Detention Center, stole a pick-up, and fled to Mann Creek in the Payette National Forest near Weiser. Leaving the pickup at the side of the road, Brown and his accomplice were walking down the road when they came upon David J. Wheeler, a civil engineer who was…