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encountered as they
hiked through the snow.
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he said. “The snow was
about the consistency of a
slushie and was black
from vegetation from the
previous summer. We
called it licorice slurpee.”
Ottmers said he could
not begin to describe all that
he learned from his trip.
“It taught me a little
something about every
thing,” he said. “It
helped me ground my
knowledge of the world.
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lege Station, and it
helped me to appreciate
both places more.”
Ottmers also learned
about some less impor
tant things, such as how
to pack for his next trip.
“I learned you need
less stuff than we original
ly thought,” he said. “It
was like Christmas, with
all this new gear, but the
gear lost its newness.
Most of what you need is
just a pack, a tent and
some food.”
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The Jenny Jones Show denies any responsibility for Scott Amedure’s death
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — In a
case that put “ambush televi
sion” on trial, a Jenny Jones Show
guest Tuesday was spared a
mandatory life in prison and
convicted of second-degree
murder for shooting a gay man
who revealed a crush on him
during a taping.
In deciding against a first-de
gree murder conviction, the jury
found that 26-year-old Jonathan
Schmitz acted without premedi
tation in the 1995 slaying of Scott
Amedure, 32.
Schmitz could get anywhere
from eight years to life in prison,
with the possibility of parole.
First-degree murder carries no
hope of parole.
Jurors said they concentrated
almost entirely on Schmitz’s
state of mind when he shot
Amedure, who revealed an at
traction to Schmitz three days
earlier as a studio audience
whooped and hollered.
Juror Joyce O’Brien said that for
Schmitz, it was like “someone pulls
the rug out from under you.”
“Even a sane person might
have trouble dealing with all that
stuff,” O’Brien said.
The case had focused attention
on “ambush” television and titil
lating daytime TV tactics, with
Schmitz’s lawyers arguing that the
show misled him into believing
he was going to meet the woman
of his dreams.
They said he was publicly hu
miliated when his secret admirer
turned out to be a man. That, cou
pled with his history of depression,
suicide attempts, a thyroid ailment
and other problems,
left him incapable of
forming the intent
necessary to commit
first-degree murder,
his lawyers said.
The jury of seven
men and five women
deliberated all day
Friday and about
two and a half hours Tuesday be
fore reaching its verdict, rejecting
the lesser charge of manslaughter.
“We all felt he had a definite
mental problem ... and the show
exacerbated that,” said another
juror, Dale Carlington.
Prosecutor Roman Kalytiak
said: “I think we had a more com
pelling case with the facts. The
defense had a more compelling
case with making jurors feel sorry
for Jonathan Schmitz.”
Defense attorney James Burdick
said Schmitz would appeal and
predicted the judge would be le
nient at Schmitz’s sentencing Dec.
4 and give him the minimum.
Amedure’s brother, Frank Ame
dure Jr., said that he was disappoint
ed by the conviction on a lesser
charge and that his family would
press ahead with its $25 million law
suit against The Jenny Jones Show.
“None of this would have hap
pened if it wasn’t for the Jenny
Jones show’s exploitation of ho
mosexuality, a sensitive issue, and
then exploiting those persons
that had difficulty with the toler
ance of homosexuality, such as
Jonathan Schmitz,” he said.
The show’s producers denied
misleading Schmitz to get him to go
on the episode, which was titled,
unbeknownst to Schmitz, “Same-
Sex Secret Crushes.” Jones testified
that she knows very little about how
her show operates and usually gets
the scripts the night before a taping.
Pm definitely a heterosexual
I guess you could say."
Jonathan Schmitz
convicted murderer
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was played for the jury.»
Amedure outlined sexua
tasies of Schmitz invl
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pagne” and rhapsodized®
his “cute, little, hard body. 1 !;
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barrassed smile but no apfl
anger. He turned away |
Amedure put an arm aroialf
and tried to kiss him.
“I’m definitely a heterosesj
guess you could say,” SchmiCj
Three days later, Sci
bought a shotgun, drove to
dure’s mobile home nearb
killed him at his doorstep. [
Schmitz’s parents tesli
that their son behaved odii
early as 3 years old, whe
would bang his head againsj
wall in anger. They saidt)l
time he was 16, he was h
weeks-long periods ofde[
sion. Later, he attemptedst
several times.
A Detroit gay rightsgi
that saw the shooting as a
crime said it was satisfied!'
conviction. “Their verdict
that humiliation and sexua
entation are not reasons to
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