Alexander Cain
The Union-Recorder
May 08, 2008 12:18 am
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A pizza delivery theft and a brutal assault against a 48-year-old Milledgeville man were two of the cases sentenced in Baldwin County Superior Court before Judge Prior on Friday and Monday.
“It was a potpourri for sure. There was nothing that really stood out from the cases that were seen,” assistant district attorney Reg Bellury said Wednesday.
According to court documents, on Monday Eric Harrison, 18, pled guilty on one count of armed robbery and one count of providing false statements, one count of carrying a pistol without a license and one count of carrying a concealed weapon stemming from a November 2007 incident involving the robbery of a Papa John’s delivery driver.
Harrison was sentenced to 20 years in prison as a result of his plea and will be allowed to serve 10 of those years on probation after spending the other half his sentence behind bars.
Harrison was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine plus a restitution of $14 to driver Wesley Tanner and $10 to Papa John’s Pizza and was banished from Baldwin County as part of his plea agreement.
Randy Clark, 20, Harrison’s alleged accomplice, pled guilty to two felony counts of an obstruction of an officer and received 10 years probation provided he serves 90 days in the Baldwin County jail.
Clark was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine plus a restitution of $14 to Tanner and $10 to Papa John’s Pizza, along with $337 in fees related to court and probation costs.
In another notable case, Ronnie Holder, 24, pled guilty to one count of robbery by force in regards to an August 2007 incident in which Holder and others allegedly attacked a 48-year-old Milledgeville man at a Kings Road address, which resulted in head and hip injuries to the victim.
Holder was sentenced to 10 years in prison but will spend only three of those in prison and the rest on probation.
Holder was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and restitution in the amount of $7,541.95 between Oconee Regional Medical Center, Oconee E.N.T., Oconee Radiology Associates, to be joint and served with Curtis Mosley, who was also allegedly involved in the attack.
In other criminal court proceedings, at least 12 other defendants entered pleas in Superior Court while two cases, those of Kefir Smith, 20, and Keon Barnes, 23, elected for a jury trial.
At the last moment, Smith, who faced one count of possession of cocaine and one count of driving on a suspended license, instead pled guilty to possession of cocaine and received five years in prison.
Barnes received a jury trial and was found guilty of one felony count of burglary, for which he must pay $87 worth of court fees and serve four years in prison and four years on probation.
“We were happy to get the number that we did of those who pled out. I think there were about 20 of them,” Bellury said.
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