UPDATE: No Plea Deal Yet for Chris Plaskon, 17; 'More Work' Needed

UPDATE

Christopher Plaskon appeared briefly in Superior Court, Milford, on Thursday morning but his case was simply continued to Feb. 23, NBC Connecticut reports.

A plea bargain offer was expected this morning, but according to published reports no plea agreement was reached Thursday.

Fox 61 reports that lawyers for Plaskson could not make a plea agreement on Thursday.

Superior Court Judge John J. Ronan, according to the Hartford Courant, said he met with the lawyers behind closed doors on Thursday and no deal was reached.

“There’s more work to be done,” Ronan said via the Courant.

We’ll continue to update this story.

Original post: Christopher Plaskon, 17, is expected to receive a plea bargain offer today for his role in the murder of Jonathan Law High School Junior Class President Maren Sanchez, 16, according to numerous media reports.

The proposed deal may be between 20 and 30 years, the Connecticut Post reports, and Plaskon if he’s considered a juvenile, would serve about 60 percent of the sentence.

Plaskon, who was 16 at the time of the murder, has served 20 months in prison. He’s expected to receive the offer in Superior Court, Milford, this morning. We’ll update this story.

It’s expected he will be given time as to whether to accept the plea offer, the Post adds.

In December, new details were revealed regarding the fatal stabbing of Sanchez at Jonathan Law High School in April 2014.

According to court documents the motive for the murder was Sanchez’s rejection of Plaskon’s request to go to the junior class prom with him.

Plaskon told his family he heard voices in his head and that is why he killed Sanchez, according to the Milford Mirror. Plaskon’s attorneys have said if the case goes to trial they are planning an insanity defense.

Court documents also stated that Plaskon told a friend he wanted to take Sanchez to the prom and he desired to be more than friends with her. Prior to Sanchez’s murder, Plaskon was bothered that a female turned him down in going to the prom, the Milford Mirror reports.

Plaskon allegedly told a friend he “wouldn’t mind if (Maren) was dead or hit by a bus,” the court documents state.

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If there is no acceptance of the plea offer, Plaskon is headed to trial by a three judge panel sometime this spring.

Plaskon’s attorneys have argued that their client was suffering from a mental defect at the time of the stabbing.

“It is his intention to defend against the charges filed against him and rely on the affirmative defense that at the time of the alleged commission of the offense, he was suffering from a mental disease or defect and or extreme emotional disturbance,” the defense’s notice states.

Plaskon is currently being held at the Manson Youth Institute in Cheshire on a $3 million bond.