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CHARLOTTE, N.C. A North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly three
decades in prison in the beating death of his 83-year-old mother.
The Charlotte Observer reported that 56-year-old Jerry Heath was sentenced to
27 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to second-degree murder.
CARSON CITY – In a 2-1 decision, the Nevada Supreme Court has voided the
second-degree murder conviction of Charlene Snyder in a highly publicized child
neglect case in Las Vegas.
The court said trial lawyer David Schieck failed to request a psychiatric
evaluation prior to advising her to plead guilty.
Snyder’s 2-year-old daughter, Adacelli, had cerebral palsy and weighed only
11 pounds at the time of her death in the summer of 2005. She was found dead
inside the family’s mobile home in a room filled with animal and human feces and
rotting food.
The three-year-old boy signed the word across the dinner table to the daughter of
his Welland foster mom.
He did it to show he understood the young
woman’s message to him also said with sign language to quiet the talkative
tot that the 14-year-old girl joining them at the table, who arrived that
mid-December day in 2005 to stay with them, was a friend.
The next
morning, foster mom Margaret Hamilton found the gregarious boy lying on his
bedroom floor, cold and grey.
He had been smothered by his friend
Aviles will always remember his smile.
Diego Valbuena, a 2006 St. Lucie
West Centennial graduate, had a big grin and knew how to make his younger cousin
laugh.
“He was like the life of the party,” says Nicole Aviles. “He
always had a big grin on his face.”
This case out of Maryland is so tragic. The perpetrator took Zoloft
and now has no memory of the incident. Even his mother said he
“hallucinated” on the drug. The young couple were deeply in love and
had a great relationship. This story, too, combines elements of “road
rage” with the attempted murder.