Any of you C7 school fans, be careful about Xavier when their players come to town, they have 3 former players convicted of
MURDER.
In a case full of adjournments and setbacks, Monday's sentencing
of
Maurice Brantley for the June 2007 murder of David John
Owen has been postponed.
A new date has yet to be scheduled.
A jury convicted the 37-year-old Canton man of second-degree murder Oct. 15.
Brantley anda Taylor man, Tracy Lynch, were charged with killing
Owen with a shovel inside of Lynch's garage. During a pretrial
hearing, former Canton . Police Sgt. Rick Poniorski testified that Lynch
told detectives that Brantley murdered Owen, 45, by himself. After hitting him
in the head with a shovel, Lynch said Brantley instructed "let him suffer."
Lynch, who had allowed Owen to live with him, admitted to
helping load his body into Brantley's vehicle and said Brantley
told him, "You'll neyer see him again.";.
http://www.cantonpl.org/sites/default/fi...3-2008.pdf
AKRON, Ohio
(AP) - The son of a former Cleveland Cavaliers player, who prosecutors say used a survival tool that included a machete and a saw to kill his friend, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Former Xavier University player Andre Smith, 30, son of former Cavs forward Bingo Smith, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence as part of a plea deal and was sentenced Monday.
The family of the victim, 19-year-old Maxim Dudinov, said they wanted Smith to go to trial and receive a stiffer punishment.
"I am a very bitter man," James Edwards, Dudinov's stepfather, told Summit County Common Pleas Judge Mary Spicer. "It's a small wonder the public's confidence in the judicial system has eroded. I am personally repulsed by the procedures."
Dudinov's mother, Maya Dudinova, found her son dead in his recliner in May 2004. She said he was beaten so severely that blood was splattered more than 20 feet away.
Prosecutors planned to go to trial and use Smith's statements to an Akron police captain and the sheriff's deputy who booked him after he was arrested in January.
But Spicer ruled Friday that the statements could not be admitted because the captain continued questioning after Smith asked for a lawyer, and the deputy should not have asked questions other than those required to fill out the booking form.
TEANECK, N.J. —
Former Xavier basketball player Lloyd Price was one of two Fairleigh Dickinson players suspended from school after they were charged in the armed robbery of a convenience store.
Price, 21, of Wilmington, Del., allegedly wore a hood around his face when he went into the Rocklins store Monday night. He allegedly showed the clerk a gun but dropped it and exposed his face when he went to pick it up.
Price fled with about $750, authorities said, but the clerk recognized him as a regular customer. The clerk called police after noting the license plate on the getaway car, which was found behind the school's Linden dormitory.
Because the clerk believed the robber was an FDU student who often bought money orders there, detectives sorted through the purchase records and developed a photo lineup.
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