Jeremy's parents disagree with the Harrises about the fairness of L.G.'s original sentence. The Rourkes dispute the claims that Jeremy had been bullying or provoking L.G., or any other boy, before he was killed. The Rourkes also dismiss the idea that Jeremy was destructive or overly aggressive in some way.
In a vigil after the incident, the Rourkes made a statement in which they asked that L.G. not be vilified for Jeremy's death. They also stated that they preferred for L.G. to be tried as a juvenile and not as an adult, removing the chance that L.G. would be given a life sentence. "He was a good boy, and he made a bad mistake," says Angela, Jeremy's mother.
Jeremy's parents disagree with the Harrises about the fairness of L.G.'s original sentence. "If [L.G.] were tried as an adult," Brian, Jeremy's father, reasons, "he would have gotten 15 to life. And age-wise he was within, what, a few months of being at that age to be tried as an adult [according to California law]."
