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Nee convicted of planning Columbine-style attack

GREG DERR/The Patriot Ledger
Joseph Nee awaits his sentence on Tuesday in Brockton Superior Court. He was ordered to serve nine months of a 2½-year sentence for conspiring to launch a Columbine-style attack at Marshfield High.


By Sydney Schwartz
The Patriot Ledger
Posted May 16, 2008 @ 06:56 AM
Last update May 16, 2008 @ 09:10 AM

MARSHFIELD —
Joseph Nee, one of two students convicted of plotting a Columbine-style attack on Marshfield High School in 2004, was freed last week – after serving two-thirds of his jail sentence.
Nee, 21, was convicted on Feb. 14, of conspiring set off bombs and shoot students and teachers in an attack planned for April 2005.
He was sentenced on Feb. 19, to serve nine months of a 2½-year sentence in Plymouth County House of Correction. With credit for time already served, it meant another six months in jail.
Nee was released on parole on May 8, however, after spending about 2½ months in Middlesex County jail. He will remain on probation until 2010, state parole and probation officials said.
“He was paroled after serving long past his parole eligibility date,” said Nee’s attorney, Thomas Drechsler. “He had 92 days credit.”
Nee, son of Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Thomas Nee, faced up to 20 years in prison after he was convicted in February of conspiracy to commit murder. He was found innocent of promoting anarchy and threatening to use deadly weapons at a school.
His co-conspirator, Tobin Kerns, finished a 10-month sentence in Plymouth County jail on March 8. Nee was transferred in February to the Middlesex County Jail in Billerica to separate him from Kerns.
Nee had a parole hearing on March 28 and was paroled on May 8, said Terrel Harris, spokesman for the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. The parole hearing came after Nee had served about half of his jail sentence.
Days after the Nee decision, the state parole board said that Karter Reed – convicted of second-degree murder following a fatal stabbing at Dartmouth High School 15 years ago – will also be soon freed, 10 years before his 25-year sentence was up, the Associated Press reported.
As to Nee, he remains under dual jurisdiction of both the parole and probation departments, until July 18, when he is scheduled to be discharged from parole supervision, Harris said.
His special conditions of parole include counseling for anger management, a mental health evaluation, supervision for drug and alcohol use, and a curfew from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. He must also comply with probation conditions once released, Harris said.
Coria Holland, spokeswoman for the state commissioner of probation, said Nee remains in compliance with his probationary requirements. His probationary term is two years, from May 13, 2008, to May 13, 2010.
“I can confirm that he is on probation,” she said. “He obviously met with his probation officer last week. ... He’s in compliance.”
And his attorney said he is ready to move on.
“He’s obviously eager to move on with his life, put all of this behind him,” Dreschler said. “Hopefully everyone else will too.”

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