Let's not forget why (we) are here today. He did kill someone. He was convicted of second-degree murder.

He is the youngest murderer in Michigan. Prosecutors are watching this case. The public is watching this case. It's Nathaniel's turn in a year and two days to show us what he has learned.

People associate terrorism with Sept. 11, (2001,) but terrorism means to incite terror in people, which is what he did. You can't play jokes like that.

We don't look at our juvenile system as a punishment system.

When a murder is satisfied, it isn't the beginning of the story; it's the middle. We shouldn't forget that fact because murder has ripples. You never go back to being the same. The people that investigate these crimes never go back to being the same as they were before they started the investigation. The people's whose lives have been affected, the victim's families, even the murderer themselves are profoundly changed. That's why murder is still the most interesting crime for us to write about, because it is the only crime where something unique is taken away from the world, something that can't be replaced.

It feels great. I think they were a little more relaxed today. It's hard to teach them to forget about the last point and move on, but they did that today. We're hoping that will continue into next week.