United States v. Jenkins

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GREGORY F. VAN TATENHOVE, District Judge.

Every case begins with a story. Here, much of that story is uncontestéd. All agree that on a dark night, in the spring of 2011, Kevin Pennington was physically and brutally assaulted on a deserted road in Kingdom Come State Park by Jason and Anthony Jenkins. The jury saw photographs of Mr. Pennington’s injuries and heard the fear in his voice during a desperate call to 911 for help. No one deserves to be harmed that way for any reason.

But this is not a case about “any reason.”' For the first time in the nation, the government sought…