WI v. Jeffrey Dahmer (1992): The Sentencing

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WI V. DAHMER (1992) - The Sentencing of Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer spoke at his sentencing, telling the court, "I knew I was evil." He was convicted of 15 of the 16 murders he had committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment on February 17,  1992.   A new Netflix docuseries "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" explores the gruesome story of Jeffrey Dahmer. Court TV cameras were inside the Wisconsin courtroom in 1992, where a jury was tasked to decide whether Dahmer, who pleaded guilty to the murders and dismemberment of 15 boys and men, should be sentenced to life in prison or admitted to a mental institution.    #JeffreyDahmer #truestories #netflix #docuseries   Related Keywords: How did Jeffrey Dahmer die How old was Jeffrey Dahmer when he died Jeffrey Dahmer movie How old was Jeffrey Dahmer when he got caught Jeffrey Dahmer brother Jeffrey Dahmer weight What did Jeffrey Dahmer's dad do to him Jeffrey Dahmer age Jeffrey Dahmer Netflix Season 2 Jeffrey Dahmer movie Jeffrey Dahmer Netflix cast Jeffrey Dahmer documentary Monster Jeffrey Dahmer movie Dahmer web series How did Jeffrey Dahmer die Jeffrey Dahmer Netflix age rating Jeffrey Dahmer Movie Netflix Jeffrey Dahmer Netflix Season 2 Jeffrey Dahmer documentary Monster Jeffrey Dahmer movie How did Jeffrey Dahmer die Jeffrey Dahmer actor Watch Jeffrey Dahmer series Jeffrey Dahmer movie cast How did Jeffrey Dahmer die Jeffrey Dahmer movie How old was Jeffrey Dahmer when he died Jeffrey Dahmer documentary Jeffrey Dahmer age Jeffrey Dahmer brother Is Jeffrey Dahmer still alive Jeffrey Dahmer born

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00:00Stand right here.

00:08Your Honor, it is over now.

00:11This has never been a case of trying to get free.

00:14I didn't ever want freedom.

00:16Frankly, I wanted death for myself.

00:19This was a case to tell the world

00:22that I did what I did not for reasons of hate.

00:25I hated no one.

00:27I knew I was sick or evil or both.

00:30Now I believe I was sick.

00:32The doctors have told me about my sickness

00:35and now I have some peace.

00:38I know how much harm I have caused.

00:41I tried to do the best I could

00:42after the arrest to make amends,

00:44but no matter what I did,

00:46I could not undo the terrible harm I have caused.

00:50My attempt to help identify the remains

00:52was the best that I could do,

00:55and that was hardly anything.

00:58I feel so bad for what I did to those poor families,

01:01and I understand their rightful hate.

01:05I know I will be in prison for the rest of my life.

01:08I know that I will have to turn to God

01:11to help me get through each day.

01:14I should have stayed with God.

01:15I tried and failed and created a holocaust.

01:19Thank God there will be no more harm that I can do.

01:23I believe that only the Lord Jesus Christ

01:25can save me from my sins.

01:28I have instructed Mr. Boyle to end this matter.

01:31I do not want to contest the civil case.

01:34I've told Mr. Boyle to try and finalize them if he can.

01:38If there is ever any money,

01:40I want it to go to the victims' families.

01:46I've talked to Mr. Boyle about other things

01:48that might help ease my conscience

01:50in some way of coming up with ideas

01:53on how to make some amends to these families,

01:55and I will work with him on that.

01:58I want to return to Ohio and quickly end that matter

02:00so that I can put all of this behind me

02:03and then come right back here to do my sentence.

02:06I decided to go through this trial for a number of reasons.

02:10One of the reasons was to let the world know

02:12that these were not hate crimes.

02:15I wanted the world in Milwaukee, which I deeply hurt,

02:18to know the truth of what I did.

02:20I didn't want unanswered questions.

02:24All the questions have now been answered.

02:26I wanted to find out just what it was

02:28that caused me to be so bad and evil.

02:31But most of all, Mr. Boyle and I decided

02:34that maybe there was a way for us to tell the world

02:36that if there are people out there with these disorders,

02:39maybe they can get some help

02:41before they end up being hurt or hurting someone.

02:44I think the trial did that.

02:47I take all the blame for what I did.

02:49I hurt many people.

02:51The judge in my earlier case tried to help me,

02:53and I refused his help, and he got hurt by what I did.

02:58I hurt those policemen in the Conorac matter,

03:00and I shall ever regret causing them to lose their jobs.

03:04And I hope and pray that they can get their jobs back

03:07because I know they did their best,

03:09and I just plain fooled them.

03:11For that, I am so sorry.

03:14I know I hurt my probation officer

03:18who was really trying to help me.

03:21I am so sorry for that and sorry for everyone else

03:24that I have hurt.

03:25I have hurt my mother and father and stepmother.

03:28I love them all so very much.

03:31I hope that they will find the same peace I am looking for.

03:36Mr. Boyle's associates, Wendy and Ellen,

03:38have been wonderful to me,

03:39helping me through this worst of all times.

03:42I want to publicly thank Mr. Boyle.

03:44He didn't need to take this case,

03:47but when I asked him to help me find the answers

03:49and to help others if I could,

03:51he stayed with me and went way overboard

03:54in trying to help me.

03:56Mr. Boyle and I agreed that it was never a matter

03:58of trying to get off.

04:00It was only a matter of which place I would be housed

04:03the rest of my life, not for my comfort,

04:06but for trying to study me in the hopes of helping me

04:08and learning to help others who might have problems.

04:12I know I will be in prison.

04:15I pledge to talk to doctors

04:16who might be able to find some answers.

04:19In closing, I just want to say

04:23that I hope God has forgiven me.

04:25I know society will never be able to forgive me.

04:29I know the families of the victims

04:30will never be able to forgive me for what I have done.

04:34I promise I will pray each day to ask for their forgiveness

04:38when the hurt goes away, if ever.

04:44I have seen their tears,

04:45and if I could give my life right now

04:47to bring their loved ones back, I would do it.

04:50I am so very sorry.

04:54Your Honor, I know that you are about to sentence me.

04:57I ask for no consideration.

05:00I want you to know that I have been treated perfectly

05:02by the deputies who have been in your court

05:04and the deputies who work the jail.

05:06The deputies have treated me very professionally,

05:09and I want everyone to know that.

05:11They have not given me special treatment.

05:14Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance.

05:18Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,

05:21of who I am the worst.

05:23But for that very reason, I was shown mercy

05:26so that in me, the worst of sinners,

05:28Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience

05:32as an example for those who would believe in him

05:35and receive eternal life.

05:37Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible,

05:41the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.

05:45I know my time in prison will be terrible,

05:48but I deserve whatever I get because of what I have done.

05:52Thank you, Your Honor, and I am prepared for your sentence,

05:54which I know will be the maximum.

05:56I ask for no consideration.

06:04There is nothing else in the defense, Your Honor, to do.

06:08Better, Your Honor, thank you.

06:12It now becomes the duty of the court

06:14to impose sentence in this case,

06:18and one of my obligations is to set forth on the record

06:23the basis for the sentence imposed.

06:29In doing that, I'm required to consider

06:31the seriousness of the offenses,

06:35the needs of the community for protection

06:36from the defendant, as well as the needs of the defendant.

06:46In doing this, there are some observations

06:49that I would like to make.

06:51You know, I've spent three weeks listening,

06:55and now it's my time to say a few things.

07:01One of the things is that real people,

07:07have been involved in this case,

07:10and have been affected by it.

07:12I thought, you know, the first family statement that I got,

07:15which went down and said a little bit about the feelings

07:19of each of the family members,

07:21I think conveyed that it's real people

07:25that have been affected by the crimes

07:28that have been committed here,

07:31and that doesn't go to just one family,

07:32it goes to all the families,

07:34but I thought that one particularly stood out in my mind

07:37with the way it was done.

07:42However, the victim's families are not

07:44the only real people involved in this case.

07:49There's the defendant's family,

07:52and, you know, this is a court

07:58that handles criminal matters on a regular basis.

08:01Right now, we're designated as a violent crime court,

08:06so it's not unusual for us to see

08:09not just the families of victims,

08:14but also the families of defendant.

08:18You know, time and time again,

08:23you see a situation where the defendant

08:27comes from a good family,

08:29but committed a horrible crime.

08:35We must sentence the defendant for committing that crime

08:37knowing full well

08:42that the family of the defendant

08:48will also be adversely affected,

08:50and perhaps did nothing

08:53for which they should be hurt any more

08:56than the victim's families did anything

08:58for which they should be hurt.

09:03A number of you have heard me use the expression before,

09:06I wish I had that magic button

09:08that I could put things back in place,

09:12but I don't have the power

09:17to bring people back to life.

09:20You know, that's in the hands of somebody else.

09:23I can't change what's happened.

09:29What I have to do is acknowledge the facts as they are,

09:33and proceed to a meaningful sentence.

09:39We heard a great deal of talk in this case

09:41about mental disease.

09:45The jury found that a mental disease did not exist.

09:49I think correctly so.

09:55What I noticed is that

09:59many of the participants, including both lawyers,

10:03had difficulty using mental disease

10:07as a term separate from mental illness.

10:11Many times those terms were, I think,

10:13unconsciously used interchangeably.

10:17Mental disease is a word of art,

10:20a legal word of art, defined in the statute book.

10:28Some mental conditions or mental illness, by definition,

10:35do not constitute a mental disease.

10:39And had it become necessary for the court to rule,

10:43it would be the ruling of this court

10:46that a paraphilia, as a matter of definition,

10:49is not a mental disease,

10:51as that term is defined in our statute.

10:54One of the things that was particularly significant to me,

10:58when we had our psychiatric and psychological experts

11:02on the stand, and they were talking,

11:04what was it, DSM-3R, the thick book that we had,

11:09was that when this term paraphilia was coined,

11:14it was coined to replace sexual deviant.

11:19And it was done so because they were carving out

11:23from the definition homosexuality,

11:29because there had been a change in public attitude

11:32in regard to that particular situation.

11:36It seems to me that in doing so,

11:41the people defining the term

11:43were trying to do, not necessarily

11:44they were trying to conform to Wisconsin law,

11:47but they were trying to create a term

11:49that fits that exception that we have in our statute,

11:54which says that an abnormality manifested

11:57only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct

12:01does not constitute a mental disease.

12:04You see, what the statute's doing

12:06is taking some things that constitute a mental condition

12:10and say, as we use the term mental disease,

12:14that's not included within that language.

12:17I say that because I think I owe it to my profession,

12:20having heard all the testimony that I've heard,

12:23to set forth on the record what my views are

12:27as far as that particular situation is concerned.

12:32It never became necessary for me specifically to rule on it.

12:41As to the seriousness of the offense,

12:44I've listened to the testimony

12:45the way everybody else has listened to the testimony,

12:47the way our 14 jurors listened to the testimony,

12:52and I too have a view of what's going on,

12:58or what was going on as far as Mr. Dahmer is concerned.

13:03First of all, every witness that examined him

13:05told us he was an intelligent man,

13:07probably superior intelligence.

13:11I agreed that he used that intelligence

13:16to manipulate people.

13:18I don't think there's any question about it.

13:21I believe what we had was a homosexual

13:27who could not accept the fact that he was a homosexual,

13:34that he from time to time

13:36involved himself in homosexual activities,

13:39and there was never a problem

13:42in a situation that he could walk away from

13:45and remain, in effect, anonymous.

13:49But once he brought somebody to his home,

13:52he could no longer remain anonymous,

13:55and therefore he was caught.

14:00There's one way to avoid that, destroy the evidence.

14:04It's a vicious way to destroy the evidence,

14:07but that's my view of what was going on.

14:13In terms of what happened to these people,

14:18gosh, I was horrified.

14:21You know, when we asked the questions in jury selection

14:24about how you react to some of these things,

14:29fortunately, nobody gets to ask the judge that question.

14:33Nobody gets to ask the judge

14:34how you feel about horror movies,

14:37because I'll tell you what I do, I turn them off.

14:40That's one of the powers that you have

14:42when you control the television set.

14:49I can go into other things in my background that,

14:52well, let's talk about it.

14:55There was a time in my life

14:58that I made a living in a packing house,

15:02and I was a little squeamish

15:05in terms of dealing with animals.

15:11Gosh, no, I gotta be squeamish

15:12when we talk about doing some of those same things

15:15to human beings, real people.

15:20I saw Dr. Fosdale on the witness stand.

15:24Here's a physician.

15:27I don't know if any of you noticed it,

15:29but I noticed it, that he got very, very uncomfortable

15:31when he was talking about what was done

15:33to these human beings.

15:35I don't know if you noticed it.

15:44People are looking to me

15:45to provide a measure of protection to the community,

15:47and I don't think there's only one way

15:51that that protection can be provided,

15:56and that is to see that this defendant

16:01never again has the opportunity

16:04to walk the streets of our community as a free man.

16:10That really, that's part of judicial discretion, I guess,

16:13but it really, in this case,

16:14doesn't require a whole lot of discretion.

16:16I can't imagine anybody else

16:18coming up with any other conclusion,

16:21and I think that's been acknowledged

16:22by both the defense attorney and the defendant himself.

16:28As to treatment, the needs of the defendant,

16:36that's something, in what the court does in sentencing,

16:39that's not within the discretion of the court,

16:41but it is within the discretion of the institution

16:44where he will be going.

16:49As I listened to the parade

16:52of psychiatric and psychological experts,

16:58I didn't hear anybody say

17:00that he was a totally normal individual.

17:06I think the opinion is universal,

17:10that he has some significant problems,

17:12and if he can benefit, or society can benefit,

17:16from treatment or study,

17:19I think that should happen within the institutional system,

17:24and there's no reason why it can't.

17:28Mr. Dahmer made reference to religion.

17:35Anybody have any idea how many defendants find religion

17:38when they come before this court for sentencing?

17:42Do they sincerely find it?

17:44I don't know.

17:46How do I determine that?

17:48Some of them keep that newfound sense of religion

17:50all the way till that door over there.

17:54Some keep it a lot longer.

17:58You know, that's something between God and Mr. Dahmer,

18:03and if indeed he's found religion,

18:05I hope that he keeps it, and I hope it helps him

18:09for the rest of his life,

18:10which is gonna be spent in one of our penal institutions.

18:18Mr. McKeon, is it the first two counts

18:20on which there's a habitual,

18:21I don't have the complaint in front of me.

18:23Is that correct?

18:26It actually attaches to all of them, Your Honor.

18:29All counts, but only the first two?

18:32No, it attaches to all 15.

18:33I addressed specifically the first two

18:37because that would add 10 years

18:40to what would be the minimum parole release.

18:42And on the others, I have the discretion

18:44because it's under the new statute.

18:47Clearly, he falls within the habitual criminality statute,

18:51and the court makes that finding.

18:55As to count one,

18:59the court will impose the mandatory life sentence

19:04plus an additional 10 years on the habitual criminality.

19:09Count two, life imprisonment

19:13plus 10 years

19:17consecutive to count one.

19:21Count three,

19:25life imprisonment

19:28with the date of parole eligibility

19:3370 years from the inception of that particular sentence.

19:37I don't have all the numbers that I can't work it out,

19:39but it'll be 70 years from the beginning of that sentence,

19:43which will be consecutive

19:46to count two.

19:49Count four, life imprisonment

19:53with the parole eligibility to be 70 years

19:57from the commencement of that sentence,

19:59consecutive.

20:01Where am I at on the numbers?

20:02Somebody has to.

20:07Madam Reporter, what was the last?

20:09I should check this off on here.

20:14Last four.

20:15Four was the last one, okay.

20:17Count five, life imprisonment,

20:19parole eligibility to be 70 years

20:22after the inception of that sentence

20:23to be consecutive to count four.

20:26Count six,

20:30life imprisonment with parole eligibility

20:32to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

20:35to be consecutive to count five.

20:39Count seven, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

20:43to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

20:46to be consecutive to count six.

20:48Count eight, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

20:53to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

20:56to be consecutive to count seven.

20:59Count nine, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

21:02to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

21:06to be consecutive to count eight.

21:08Count 10, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

21:15to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

21:18to be consecutive to count nine.

21:21Count 11, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

21:26to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

21:29to be consecutive to count 10.

21:32Count 12, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

21:36to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

21:39to be consecutive to count 11.

21:42Count 13, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

21:49to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

21:51to be consecutive to count 12.

21:54Count 14, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

21:59to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

22:04to be consecutive to count 13.

22:08Count 15, life imprisonment with parole eligibility

22:11to be 70 years after the inception of that sentence

22:14to be consecutive to count 14.

22:19I believe I have and I intended to follow

22:24the recommendation of the state.

22:27I could have said something different

22:31which would have had the same impact.

22:33I really see, nobody gains anything

22:38by just to say more and more years.

22:41The important point is that the sentence

22:43is structured in such a way that this defendant

22:47will never again see freedom.

22:49That is owed to this community

22:51in order to protect the community

22:53as well as acknowledgement of the seriousness

22:56of the offenses.

22:57Those are the reasons the sentence, of course,

23:00is to the state prison system.

23:03One thing I didn't provide, all of these sentences

23:06are consecutive to the time he's presently serving.

23:11There are appellate rights, Mr. Boyle,

23:13you'll be reviewing with your client his appellate rights.

23:15I'd like to indicate to the court

23:16that they will be signed in proper form.

23:19The part that will be checked as required

23:21is that he is undecided.

23:23It's only to preserve the right,

23:25to move it along the proper way.

23:27The final decision will be made within 20 days

23:30after we had some settlement here.

23:32I don't anticipate there will be an appeal.

23:34I only say that because that's what my client

23:36wanted me to say, but I still want deliberation

23:39on that decision and I want to make that

23:42a part of the record.

23:43Lastly, Your Honor, I am required to ask

23:45the court on the record for a 10-minute contact visit

23:48with his stepmother and father,

23:50and I would ask the court would grant that.

23:52Are they present?

23:53They're in some hallway, I didn't know they were.

23:56They're present in the building, is what you're saying.

23:57I understand, they are, I have not seen them.

23:59Any objection to that, Mr. Truby?

24:00I do not have a request.

24:01So ordered.

24:02Thank you, Your Honor.

24:04Anything further for the court?

24:06No, please, the court, thank you.

24:08Court's in recess.

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