Cipriano prelim

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Tucker Cipriano calmly scribbled on a yellow legal pad in a Farmington Hills courtroom Wednesday as a witness described a chilling plot that he said was hatched by Cipriano and a friend.

The plan: Kill Cipriano's family.

Ian Zinderman, 20, said it was specific -- Tucker Cipriano, 19, and Mitchell (Roderick) Young, 20, even divvied up who would kill whom.

"Tucker was going to go after his two brothers," Zinderman told a courtroom packed with Cipriano family and friends, some fighting tears and holding hands. "And Roderick was going to go after the mom and dad, and Roderick was supposed to go for the sister."

When Assistant Prosecutor John Skrzynski asked why Young, and not Cipriano, would kill 8-year-old Isabella Cipriano, Zinderman replied, "Tucker loved his sister."

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Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.