She said Lembcke wanted his family to know that he was sorry, and added that he has been emotionally distraught every time she has visited him in jail. Clair said it is a tragedy to send a juvenile into the adult prison system. “You just hope the jury has the sense to see it for what it really is, and that is a bunch of rubbish.”ĭefense lawyer Patty St. “When you have a defendant whose back’s against the wall, it’s not unusual for them to resort to this sort of defense,” he told reporters. He criticized defense attempts to portray Lembcke as mentally ill. Deputy County Prosecutor David Bruneau called the verdict and sentence gratifying. Relatives would not talk to reporters afterward. But he sobbed openly during the sentencing process when an aunt, Pamela Ham, told him - and the court - that he’d had a loving mother and hard-working father and didn’t know what he’d given up. William Lembcke showed little emotion during most of the proceedings. 23 - broke down in tears when the verdict was read. At the courthouse yesterday, family members - including the defendant’s only surviving sibling, 24-year-old Clinton Lembcke, who was not at home when the shootings occurred last Dec. Lembcke admitted sexually molesting his sister’s body, police testified. The bodies of Robert and Diana Lembcke and their children, Jolene and Wesley, were found along a rural road days after the shooting at the family home in Addy, about 60 miles north of Spokane. Kristianson also assessed Lembcke more than $15,500 in lawyer fees and court costs. The only penalties for aggravated murder are life in prison without parole or execution, but state law does not allow execution of people under 18. Stevens County Superior Court Judge Larry Kristianson called Lembcke “a monster” as he handed down the sentence. William Lembcke, 16, was convicted earlier yesterday of four counts of aggravated-first-degree murder in the Christmas-week shooting deaths of his parents, his 18-year-old sister and his 11-year-old brother. William Lembcke – Current Facility – Washington State Penitentiary William Lembcke Other NewsĪ teenager convicted of killing four members of his family was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without parole.

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