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Driver indicted after illegal immigrant died in Oklahoma wreck
 For the 1,500-mile ride from Houston to Los Angeles last October, the 12 illegal immigrants had been crammed into a 2004 black Suburban with their driver and another man. Their trip ended not in sunny California but in northern Oklahoma when the driver fell asleep on Interstate 35 the morning of Oct. 21. The Suburban rolled over one-and-a-half times inside the median and ended up on its top about a mile south of Perry, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. One passenger, Oscar Francisco Rodos-Molina, 18, of El Salvador, was killed. Only the driver, Jonathan Rene Martinez, 26, of Houston, was wearing a seat belt, the highway patrol reported. Some of the illegal immigrants fled after the wreck and are still missing.
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FORT MILL, S.C. – Police in Fort Mill have charged a man with first degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Police say the victim in the case is a three-year-old baby girl. According to the incident report, the child’s mother contacted authorities telling them she believed that her daughter was possibly assaulted. The toddler was treated at Carolinas Medical Center and DSS was notified of the situation, according to the incident report. After their investigation, police arrested Mazy Balemba Kubuanu. He is now being held without bond at the York County Detention Center on a felony charge. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years if convicted.
Suffolk, Va. – Bryant Terrell Hart is under arrest. He’s accused of attempted rape and the abduction of an underage girl. As police were arresting him on Sunday, they say he assaulted an officer at headquarters. Hart is also charged with felony assault of a police officer. The officer was not hurt officials say.
CALLOWAY Co, Ky - A Murray man has been arrested in Calloway County on sexual assault charges involving a minor. Steven D. Saunders, 29 was arrested November 21st on sexual assault charges involving a minor after an investigation conducted by the Calloway County Sheriff's Office. Saunders' preliminary hearing was waived. His next court appearance is January 27th at 8:30 a.m. An arrest was made after the victim's family provided information to the Sheriff's Office. 
PANOLA COUNTY, MS - A Grenada man has been arrested for sexual battery of a vulnerable person. Anthony Reece, age 40 was arrested Thursday by investigators with the Attorney General's Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The victim was a patient at Tri-Lakes Medical Center in Batesville, where the defendant worked. Reece is charged with one count of sexual battery of a vulnerable person. He was booked into Panola County Jail and bond was set at $250,000. If convicted, Reece faces a maximum of 30 years in jail and $10,000 in fines.
A 19-year-old woman was walking to a store when a man with his pants dropped to his knees took her to the ground and climbed on top of her, according to the Prince William County Police Department. The incident took place at 6:13 p.m. Friday on the 14500 block of Potomac Mills Road in Woodbridge. Authorities said that the woman was walking into the HH Gregg when the man approached her from behind, picked her up, and took her to the ground. Multiple people intervened to get the man off the victim before officers arrived and detained the man, authorities said. Jaguar Robert Williams-Palmer, 20, of no fixed address, was charged with attempted rape. He is being held without bond. 
The Robeson County Sheriff's Office says Alfonso Chacon, 31,has been charged in connection with the sexual assault of a woman in the Parkton area of the county, according to Robeson County Sheriff Ken Sealey. He's charged with Rape, Kidnapping, Second Degree Sex Offenses, Felony Conspiracy and Robbery With a Deadly Weapon. Since December 4, 
Denver police are asking the public to help identify a man who attacked a woman and attempted to sexually assault her early Sunday morning near Cheesman Park. Police said the man approached the woman as she was walking about 4 a.m. After making several unwanted sexual advances, the man knocked the woman to the ground and punched her while attempting to remove her clothing. After beating the woman, the man fled on foot. She fought him off and somehow got away." Police released a composite sketch of the suspect. . He's described as a black man who is between 30 and 40 years old. He stands about 5-feet-10-inches tall, has an athletic build, a shaved head, a close-shaved goatee and he was wearing dark clothing,
NEW YORK -- A woman who forgot her wallet at McDonald's became the victim of a sexual predator in Manhattan early Monday morning, investigators said. The victim, a 21 year old woman, was out with a friendand they ordered food at a McDonald's and the woman then walked home. Shortly after arriving at around 1:50 a.m., a man knocked on her door and said, "I have your wallet." The woman checked her bag and realized that she did not have her wallet, and likely left it at the McDonalds. When the woman returned to her door to ask for the wallet and express her gratitude, the man pushed his way in and tried to rape her. She screamed. He fled. She was treated at Bellevue Hospital and released. Police described the suspect as a black man in his 30s, 6'3" tall, 210 pounds, wearing a blue leather jacket and a blue hat with flaps and gloves. Officials believe the would-be rapist still has her wallet, which leaves her very vulnerable. 
An armed robbery suspect is in custody after a shootout with a store owner Saturday. Darvin Cannon faces several charges including attempted homicide and armed robbery after the 20-year-old man exchanged gunfire with the owner of Galle's Indian Fields Market, according to the City of Bridgeton Police Dept. Cannon entered the store on the 400 block of Indian Ave. around 7:10 p.m. with a handgun and demanded money from 25-year-old 
Ducks footballer Troy Hill was in court Monday to face charges. According to Lane County Jail records, Hill was arrested on Friday night and is still in jail facing two charges. He was suspended indefinitely by the Ducks. According to the Eugene Police Department, Hill was arrested without incident initially on four charges, including felony assault and strangulation. However, he was not charged with the felonies at an arraignment Monday afternoon. Hill faces just two charges–criminal mischief and menacing. Both are misdemeanors. 
PHILADELPHIA - - A Philadelphia youth football coach accused of raping two boys is facing additional charges, authorities say. 24-year-old Leon Watson was charged last month with sexually assaulting 
NORMAN, OK - Former University of Oklahoma footballer David "Trey" Metoyer is set to make his first court appearance on felony charges of lewd conduct. The 20-year-old left the team in mid-October after being charged with exposing himself to two women in Norman. The first incident took place on August 29. The alleged victim told a Norman police detective she was on a balcony when she saw a car driven by a man pull into the apartment building's parking lot. The car "pulled into a parking spot" and the woman noticed that the man's genitals were exposed. The second incident occurred on September 17 when Metoyer allegedly exposed himself to a woman who had been walking her dog. Metoyer approached the woman and asked if he could borrow a pen. She went into her apartment to get an ink pen and when she came back, Metoyer had exposed his genitals, it says. 
A judge accepted a former UNLV basketball player and Philly native's guilty pleas to reduced petty theft and trespass charges and allowed him to pay restitution for expensive Nike sneakers, $500 cash and almost $900 worth of video games from a friend's apartment last May. Savon Goodman, 20, didn't appear in court Monday while his defense attorney outlined the plea deal to close Goodman's misdemeanor conspiracy and felony burglary and grand larceny case. 
Baltimore firefighters battled a rowhome fire in the northwest part of the city which led to charges against a man who police believe started it. Firefighters were called to a home on Ridgewood Avenue around 4:40 p.m., where they found flames coming from the first floor of the home and saw a man and two women jumping from a second-floor ledge. One of the women had burns on her face and her clothes were smoking, while the second woman was partially on fire. Other people who had already escaped used blankets and sheets to catch the victims who jumped. Firefighters were able to quickly put the fire out, and they learned from witnesses that a man set the place on fire and then ran away. Officers who found the man in the area chased him down and caught him. He was later identified as 26-year-old Jordan Grimes. Police said a 40-year-old woman at the home, who identified herself as Grimes' girlfriend, said Grimes had assaulted her with a baseball bat and then ran away 
INDIO, Calif. - A man who stabbed someone for intervening after he stole items from a Home Depot in La Quinta has been arrested. Police said Kenneth Wayne Salter, 48, committed the crime on October, 21, just before 11 a.m. He was finally arrested on December, 12, in Indio after investigators from the Thermal Station searched the 81000 block of Hoover Avenue. Police said Salter was taken into custody and booked into the Indio Jail for attempt homicide. Back in October, Salter stole items from the Home Depot on Hwy. 111 and was confronted by a 
BEDFORD COUNTY, Tenn. - A former captain of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department was arrested after being indicted by a grand jury on charges of theft. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested Rebecca Hord, 58, for taking money collected by the sheriff's department from registered sex offenders. An investigation into Hord began in January 2012 after an internal audit revealed financial discrepancies. Authorities said she would take money sex offenders paid as registration fees and issue generic receipts, but records would show the fees were unpaid. According to the TBI, Hord stole approximately $10,200 from the county. She was booked into the Bedford County jail and released on her own recognizance. Hord is due in court December 20.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Nashville judge is weighing a request to allow a private attorney to handle the death penalty case against Lorenzo Jenkins. The request from the public defender's office comes as the state is pushing to begin executing condemned inmates again. Assistant Public Defender Mike Engle told Criminal Court Judge Randall Wyatt Jr. last week that the Nashville public defender's office lacks the resources to take on another death penalty case, which on average takes 2,000 hours of preparation. Elected Public Defender Dawn Deaner said that her office is underfunded and understaffed and is already involved in two death penalty cases. Jenkins is charged with murder in the 2012 stabbing deaths of 
A 30-year-old man suspected of raping three women in the Honolulu area has been charged.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - A man has been arrested by Miami Gardens Police for allegedly assaulting a child he coaches. Paul Johnson, 49, was arrested on charges of sexual battery. He met the female child at Pepper's Park in North Miami for "an unscheduled practice" Friday evening. Poor weather forced the practice to be cancelled, so Johnson took the girl home to her family's apartment. Upon arriving at the home, Johnson asked to use the bathroom. She told police he then sexually assaulted the child. The girl's mother arrived at the apartment, amid the assault, and Johnson fled the scene. Johnson surrendered himself to the Miami Gardens Police Department Saturday. 
PERRY -- A former Hawkinsville pastor was sentenced to 30 years for having sex with an underage teen he met at his church. Terrance King, 34, was convicted of statutory rape, aggravated child molestation and enticing a child for indecent purposes. King, who was the pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church for about three years, took the then-
NEW YORK — The NYPD has asked the public for help in tracking down a man wanted in connection with an attempted rape that took place in Ozone Park, Queens. At 10 a.m. on Friday, December 13, the suspect gained entry to the victim’s apartment, brandished a pocket knife, and told her to take to her clothes off. The victim complied and undressed before struggling with the suspect for his knife. The victim wrestled the knife away from the suspect who then displayed a second pocket knife and cut the victim on her wrist, and finger. The suspect then fled the scene in an unknown direction with both pocket knives. The suspect has been described as a black male in his early 20′s, he is approximately 5’10″ tall, weighs 180-lbs, has a dark complexion, and was wearing a black hoodie with white letters and blue long johns.
A manwho 'kidnapped' a teenager and raped her in his car has been jailed for seven years. 
BEAVER COUNTY – An 18-year-old has been charged in the brutal rape and beating of an elderly nun in Aliquippa. Andrew Bullock, of Orchard Street, faces at least 10 charges in the Friday morning attack. The nun serves at St. Titus Church on Franklin Avenue. She was walking in a parking lot behind the church when she was approached by a man who choked her, punched her, then threw her to the ground where she was assaulted and raped. The nun, who is in her 70s, is recovering at Allegheny General from a broken jaw. 
Three young men have been found guilty of killing a 20-year-old Pennsylvania student. A jury found 17-year-old Jon Lee guilty of third-degree murder, while the judge in the case delivered the same verdict for 19-year-old Brandon Lind, while finding 24-year-old Devele Reid guilty of second-degree murder. Prosecutors say all three are liable in the June 2012 death of Slippery Rock University student 
Forensic evidence has linked convicted cop killer Kevin Randleman to a 2005 rape case in Illinois. On May 31, 2005, a 
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- A teenager arrested in Anaheim Friday is a suspect in two Orange County sexual assaults, police said. Raymund Boyken, 18, was arrested after he was found hiding in an apartment he allegedly broke into while fleeing from police. Boyken allegedly stole a woman's car after sexually assaulting her Friday morning outside a church near La Palma Avenue and Brookhurst Street in Anaheim. An Anaheim police officer spotted the victim's car near Sycamore and Olive streets and tried to pull it over, and a short chase ensued. Santa Ana Police confirmed Boyken is the same person wanted for sexually assaulting a woman in a parking structure at the Santa Ana Westfield MainPlace Mall on Wednesday afternoon. Boyken allegedly used a knife in Wednesday's assault.
The man accused of raping a female in November has been arrested in Atlanta. Albert Carlos Ford, 32, Atlanta, was taken into custody in Atlanta and will be extradited back to Baton Rouge. Ford allegedly followed a 
DETROIT, MI -- Johnny R. Kennedy's life did an about face. Detroit police already had him, but they didn't know it yet. After being convicted of second-degree murder in 1995 -- a mutilation and disinterment charge was dropped -- Kennedy, 57, thought freedom was within reach. Kennedy was scheduled to be released on an upcoming parole but now he's charged with another murder and facing life in prison. On Nov.17, 1993, Detroit police found 
WESTTOWN — A custodian at Stetson Middle School was arrested and charged with a sexual assault that was said to have occurred Thursday night in the school building. Charged was Steven Warren Wesley Sr., 49. Wesley has been employed by the West Chester Area School District for 17 years. He was ordered held on $500,000 bail after arraignment on charges of rape, sexual assault, and related charges. He was sent to Chester County Prison after failing to post bail. . Police said a 
WASHINGTON -- Police are looking for a person of interest in connection to an armed robbery. The robbery happened on November 29 around 6:42 p.m. at the 5900 block of Georgia Avenue, NW. You can see the suspect in the surveillance video at link.
A teacher’s union in Michigan is fighting to get a $10,000 severance package for a convicted child molester whose case that drew outrage earlier this year when his former school colleagues pleaded with a judge to sentence him lightly. Neal Erickson, 38, pleaded guilty in May to raping a young boy over the course of three years — from 2006 to 2009 — and was sentenced to 15-30 years in prison. The prison term came over the pleas of seven of Erickson's former fellow teachers at Rose City Middle School, including Sally Campbell, who said in a letter to the judge that “Neal made a mistake. He allowed a mutual friendship to develop into much more," according to The Ogemaw County Herald.
FLUSHING — Police were asking for the public’s help in finding a man wanted in connection with a rape that happened around 10 p.m. Dec. 4. 
BALTIMORE —The man charged with hitting and killing a longtime Baltimore City employee earlier this year in front of City Hall enters a plea in the case and learns his fate. Johnny Johnson entered a guilty plea to vehicular manslaughter in the death of 
ROWAN COUNTY, NC - A Rowan County man is being held on a $5 million bond after deputies say a newlywed was shot in the head during a home break-in last week. Khari Dewayne McClelland, 23, was arrested. He was the third person arrested in the case. Deputies say 
A "self-proclaimed" pastor in Minnesota has been charged with the rape of two girls. Jacoby Kindred, 61, is accused of sexually abusing the daughters of his son's girlfriend beginning when
TX - The wife of a Gilmer former pastor serving six life sentences in prison for the sexual assault of a child was sentenced for failing to prevent the abuse. Rosie Evans Fluellen pled guilty to a charge of criminal responsibility to aggravated assault of a child. Fluellen's husband, Hugo Fluellen, was sentenced in October to six consecutive life sentences after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting a child for more than a decade. Evidence presented in Hugo Fluellen's trial showed he began molesting his victim when she was in second grade. Witnesses testified Fluellen would often molest his victim on the way home from church after she had attended Sunday School and sang in the choir. Hugo molested his victim until late in 2012, when he was arrested on several counts of Indecency With a Child, Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child and Sexual Assault of a Child. Evidence also established that the defendant was the father of the victim's baby, which was born last year. 
A convicted felon charged in the 1988 slaying of a woman in her Rogers Park apartment was ordered held without bail today. DNA evidence helped Chicago police arrest Prentice Phillips, 48, who was charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of 
A suspect was arrested Thursday in the rape and stabbing of a Daytona Beach woman last summer, authorities said. Laundsy Williams was charged with one count of sexual battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery. The woman was raped and stabbed the morning of Aug. 21 after she stopped at a house on Cedar Street just before sunup to hang out with friends. As she walked to that house, she said she was suddenly grabbed from behind by a man who dragged her behind a residence in the 500 block of Cedar. She tried to scream but the stranger told her to be quiet. The man then stabbed her in the chin and punched her in the chin. He yanked off her shorts and raped her. The woman described the attacker as a light-skinned black man with dreads or a ponytail that was shoulder-length. She said he was between 35 and 45 years old, and had a thin mustache.
ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. - Two people are in custody in connection to a burglary and sexual assault at an Ashland City home over the weekend. Kerry Covington, 20, was arrested on Thursday. Antonio Nelson, 25, was arrested on drug charges in Nashville on Wednesday. Covington and Nelson are accused of sexually assaulting a woman when she drove to a neighbor's home on Eisenhower Drive in the Caldwell Estates subdivision to borrow an onion on Sunday. The homeowners were not home at the time, but told the 25-year-old woman to use their electronic keypad to enter the residence. Upon entering the home, the woman was attacked, tied up with a phone cord and sexually assaulted. She was able to escape and get help from another neighbor. 
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A man with a history of sex crimes is accused of peering into the stalls of a women's restroom at the Palm Beach County Health Department. Police say 26-year-old Willie Lee Anderson was arrested Wednesday on one count of voyeurism. They say the incident happened last month. He's being held without bail at the Palm Beach County Jail on violation of probation charges. . Two women told police they saw a man in a second-floor bathroom that afternoon. Another woman says she saw the man peering looking into an occupied stall.
LIVERMORE, Calif. — The man killed in the fiery crash in Livermore Thursday morning has been identified as 
It’s been more than two years since 
FLORENCE, Ariz. — A Mexican citizen illegally in the United States killed a prison cellmate in order to remain in custody, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said. The Sheriff’s Office said it is recommending that prosecutors charge 43-year-old 
The former Brooklyn judge who said he wrongfully convicted a man of murder because of his own anti-white bias said Thursday that he felt “terrible” when he saw the condition of the guy in court this week. 
WILMINGTON, NC – The man accused of killing a teen just before Christmas in 2012 is expected to take a plea deal in court Thursday. Quintel Raheem Grady will like plead guilty to his involvement in the death of
HERTFORD COUTNY, N.C. - A disturbing national trend has found its way into eastern North Carolina. There have been reports of (black) young men punching innocent (White) people -- with the intention of knocking them out -- and the victims never see it coming. Hertford County Sheriff Juan Vaughan said there were four victims in one night from the "Knockout Game." On Nov. 26, four different people were attacked when they least expected it. The incidents happened within hours of each other. "They don't give you any warning whatsoever," added the victim. "I was leaning against the brick wall and they just came around to the other side and boom. [You] turn around and they hit you." The victim said he was at Pro Sparkle Car Wash on Memorial Drive when he was hit in the throat and head by two men. A separate attack happened right across the street inside a laundromat. Officers say the attacks resulted in five arrests, including 22-year-old William White, 24-year-old Dominique Parker and 26-year-old Antown Valentine. All have been charged with assault. "It's not a game. It's serious, and somebody can get killed," Vaughan said. 
A Memphis man already accused of attacking a popular crossing guard is back in jail. Donell Johnson, 20, is all smiles in his mug shot, but he is facing more time after his second arrest on robbery-related charges. The first time involved popular Richland Elementary crossing guard 
ATLANTA, GA - On Oct. 13, 2013, 18-year-old 
Va. – A Newport News man was arrested and is now facing sexual assault charges. 20-year-old Devante Edmonds is charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and two counts of attempted sodomy by force. On September 27, 2013 police responded to a local hospital in reference to a past sexual assault. The mother of the victim told police that her
MINNEAPOLIS – A man who impersonated a police officer and allegedly sexually assaulted a woman has been arrested. The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office said the incident took place on Nov. 23. A suspect abducted a woman off the street in that area claiming to be a police officer, held her for several hours and sexually assaulted the victim. The suspect, identified as 35-year-old Gideon Charles Arrington was taken into custody. 
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Neshoba County, Miss. A Carthage man has been charged with kidnapping and rape in Neshoba County, in connection with a reported incident last week. 34-year-old Jeromaine Barnes was arrested near Sebastopol. Investigators say Barnes kidnapped and sexually assaulted his girlfriend and kept her in his car on an old logging road. She escaped when he fell asleep. Investigators say he will also likely face charges in Scott County. Investigators there have questioned him.
JACKSON, Miss. - A man has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison in a child sex trafficking case for the videotaped attack on a
Largo, Florida - Largo detectives say Brandon Bostick stalked a 60-year-old jogger in Taylor Park, raped her and then left her to suffer. 
Va. – A man is now behind bars in Norfolk after police say he exposed himself to a woman and 
SANFORD, Fla. — A Sanford man bonded out of jail after he was charged with indecent exposure, police said Thursday. Authorities said Dwight Eddington Jr. was caught on surveillance camera exposing himself as he entered a store near the Seminole Towne Center last week. A store security officer said he followed Eddington as he continued to walk around the store exposing and touching himself. Investigators said Eddington appears to have been following a customer inside the store.
A woman is accused of having a sexual relationship with her teen neighbor. Baytown police said Tamika Taylor, 39, is charged with continuous sexual assault of a child. Taylor and the
CLEVELAND, OH - The man who sexually assaulted an autistic teenager was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. Israel Wingo, 67, will serve 13.5 years in prison for sexually assaulting the
The 15-year-old who police said is one of the two people responsible for the home invasion that injured an elderly woman in Watertown late last month will be in court today, where he will be tried as an adult. Divontaye Canady has been charged with assault, larceny and kidnapping with a firearm. When Canady appeared in court last month, his mother was by his side as his public defender entered a not guilty plea. The victim, 
ASHEVILLE, N.C. —A limousine driver has been charged in an Asheville crash that killed a newlywed couple who had just attended a college friend's wedding. Asheville police Sgt. Dave Romick said Rodney Koon, 46, is charged with DWI and two counts of felony death by motor vehicle. The white 2003 Lincoln Town Car had gone over an embankment and struck a large tree. Passengers in the limo, 
Tampa police arrested a 19-year-old man Tuesday night in the fatal shooting of a taxi cab driver that occurred Sunday night. Devante Bell, of 1509 New Orleans Ave., faces one count of first-degree murder with a firearm and attempted armed robbery with a firearm in the shooting death of
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Kareem Turner, one of two men accused of killing an off-duty Norfolk police officer in 2010 was denied bond Wednesday morning. Turner was indicted on charges of second degree murder, armed robbery, use of a firearm in the commission of a felon and conspiracy. Turner and Raymond Perry are the two suspects charged with Officer 
BERKELEY COUNTY, SC - The shooting that led to the death of 
UPDATE: "On 12-6-13 Glendale Police Detectives were continuing their investigation into the homicide of 
HIXSON, TN - A Hixson family is thanking a good Samaritan for helping police catch two suspects that stole a TV from their home. A Bill Owens Heating and Air employee spotted the duo lifting the television and followed them until police could pursue. Red Bank Police chased the suspects until they wrecked on Highway 27 near Mountain Creek Road. One suspect was taken into custody on the scene. K-9 units assisted in locating the second suspect. The family says they're touched by the witness' kindness. 
It will now be at least mid-March before a man charged with killing two Bessemer bank tellers and wounding two others during a robbery in 2007 could face a federal judge and jury.
BELLEVILLE, Ill.— A 39-year-old woman on Monday was sentenced to serve 60 years in prison for the murder of an 85-year-old grandmother burned alive in her vehicle in 2011. St. Clair County Circuit Judge Bob Haida found LaTosha Cunningham guilty of killing 
One of their Facebook pages boasts of going to the school of 'da thug life'. Vester left behind his one-year-old son Gavin and wife Jamie. 'He knew it wasn’t the best neighborhood, that’s why he went in the middle of the afternoon,' said family friend Sarah Hill. 'He was being careful.' 
LEVITTOWN, Pa. — The Trenton, NJ man who fired the shotgun blast that killed a popular Bucks County musician in his Levittown, Pa. home nearly two years ago will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Breon Powell offered nothing in the courtroom when the judge officially imposed the sentence that was decided by a jury that had found the 22-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder. Bucks County prosecutor Matt Weintraub says he will always wonder why 
