Ivins Rosier, 17, is charged with one count of burglary of a dwelling with… (Palm Beach County Sheriff's…) 
 
 Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Boody's retired police dog, Drake, was near death when Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Detective Philip DiMola questioned one of the suspects in the canine's shooting, then-16-year-old Ivins Rosier. 
 
 "If you shoot that dog and he dies, that's murder of a law enforcement officer," DiMola pressed Rosier on Nov. 21, 2012, in an interrogation recorded on video and watched by a Palm Beach County jury during its deliberations Friday. 
 
 As it turned out, the juvenile then confessed to DiMola, the 5-year-old German shepherd was euthanized two days later, and Rosier was charged as an adult and this week put on trial — but not for murdering a cop since Drake was retired and the law treats killing a dog differently than a human. 
 
 The end result: A guilty verdict on the felony counts of cruelty to animals with a firearm, burglary of a dwelling with a firearm and shooting into a building. 
 
 Circuit Judge Robin Rosenberg ordered Rosier, 17, to be held without bail at the Palm Beach County Jail, while defense attorneys Jack Fleischman and Rachel Preefer said they will seek a new trial and other legal challenges. 
 
 They plan to revisit their pre-trial argument that Rosier's indictment violates his right to be sentenced as a juvenile, which would mean far less prison time for the offenses. 
 
 Also, Fleischman says he'll return to the assertions he made during his closing arguments Thursday: There's insufficient evidence to find his client guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, regardless of the defendant's confession and GPS ankle monitor records showing Rosier was inside Boody's home on the night of the crimes. ||||| In 1999, two tween siblings were charged as adults for the murder of their father's girlfriend. They are to be released in less than two weeks. Flickr Creative Commons 
 
 In 1999, two Florida tweens made headlines when they shot and killed their father’s 29-year-old girlfriend, Sonya Speights, with their father's 9mm semi-automatic as she worked on a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle in their home just outside Cocoa Beach. Thirteen-year-old Catherine Fairchild Jones fired the first shot into Speight’s torso and dropped the gun. Her 12-year-old brother, Curtis, picked up the gun and then fired it at Speights until the magazine was empty. 
 
 After firing the shots, the siblings fled to the woods by their house. Police found them in the morning and an initial investigation found jealousy was the motive after their 38-year-old father announced plans to marry Speights. 
 
 A Brevard county judge decided to try the 12- and 13-year olds as adults, making Curtis Fairchild Jones to become the youngest person in the country to be charged as an adult for first-degree murder. Instead of facing life in prison, both pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and were sentenced to 18 years in prison. When Curtis was leaving the courthouse he allegedly asked his lawyer if he could bring his Nintendo with him. 
 
 Now, 16 years later, Curtis is set to be released, Florida Today reports. In less than two weeks the country’s youngest convicted murderer will live on his own for the first time in his life. His sister will be released later this year, too. 
 
 The siblings come out of prison as 29- and 30-year-olds who have never driven a car or sent a text message in their life. They will be on probation for the rest of their life. The smallest infraction can land them back in prison. 
 
 Other than a minor setback in 2004, when Curtis and several other young boys escaped from a juvenile detention facility after hurricane damage demolished a fence, both have reportedly demonstrated good behavior. 
 
 It was later determined that the Jones’ children might have been victims of sexual abuse. It was revealed that days before the event Department of Children and Families investigated signs of sexual abuse but closed the case. In Catherine’s diary, she wrote that she had been plotting to kill their father’s girlfriend, Sonya Speights, and her father and another male relative for at least two weeks. She claims the male relative would masturbate while she showered. 
 
 Their case, later taken on by Florida State University’s law professor Paolo Annino, has made some strides in prison reform. The Second Chance for Children in Prison Act was set to pass in five years ago, but couldn’t make it through the House of Representatives. It would’ve allowed children serving more than 10 years in prison a chance for parole after serving eight years.
– It's no small prison term: An 18-year-old boy was sentenced Friday to 23 years for a burglary in 2012 during which he shot a retired police dog, the Sun-Sentinel reports. At age 16, Ivins Rosier confessed to breaking into the home of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Boody in West Palm Beach and shooting the 5-year-old German Shepherd, the newspaper noted in May. Rosier's attorney argued that a detective "hustled" the boy during interrogation by equating the dog's death to the "murder of a law enforcement officer" (which wasn't legally true). Rosier's attorney also wanted his client sentenced as a juvenile with a maximum sentence of 6 years, CBS 12 reports. "I believe this to be sadistic to do this to a child," said Rosier's attorney, who plans to appeal. He conceded that Rosier's crimes were serious, "but when you look at the range of punishments available, that's why they call it juvenile." Ultimately, Rosier's sentence resulted from convictions on three felony counts: cruelty to animals with a firearm, burglary of a dwelling with a firearm, and shooting into a building. "A gun in a 16-year-old's hand can do equally the damage as a gun in an adult's hand," said the prosecuting attorney. "He's not a child." The trooper, Boody, cried when testifying about how he came home to find his dog crippled by gunshot wounds. (In Utah, a 16-year-old boy faces as many as 15 years in prison for taking part in a robbery with friends.)