got to stay away from crime. If you slip up you going to end up back in jail and it very well could be state time. iphone 5s reconditionné I jack you up, Judge Garrett D. Page warned Andre Lamont Jackson, who last week testified at the murder trial of his cousin, Derrick Michael Jackson, who ultimately was convicted of first degree murder for the Dec. 1, 2014, shotgun slaying of 47 year old Lori Marie Sheridan inside her first floor apartment in the 500 block of King Street in Pottstown.
Page, accepting a plea agreement, sentenced Andre Jackson, 35, of the 300 block of North Franklin Street, to one year and five days already served to 23 months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit robbery in connection with two armed robberies at which he was present with his cousin Derrick Jackson before and after Sheridan murder.
Jackson also must serve four years probation for a total of six years of court supervision. Jackson will be released from jail as soon as a parole plan is devised for him.
you get home you go to your mother and thank her for her prayers, Page advised Jackson, whose mother appeared tearful in court as the judge imposed the punishment.
At Derrick Jackson trial last week, Andre testified he witnessed Derrick fatally shoot Sheridan during an argument over a $20 drug debt.
Defense lawyer Henry S. Hilles III said leniency, in the form of the time served sentence, was appropriate for Andre Jackson, citing Jackson cooperation with prosecutors during Derrick Jackson trial, which included his eyewitness testimony. Hilles said that testimony was for prosecutors.
client stepped up to the plate and he testified in a murder case and was a significant part of a murder conviction on behalf of the commonwealth. It wasn an easy thing to do, Hilles said.
is clear is that my client had no role in the homicide. He had no advance knowledge that his cousin was going to do this and in fact, my client was willing to be honest about exactly what happened, Hilles added. it a shame that he was involved in the robbery to begin with and he remorseful about that, but he had no intent at being involved in a homicide and was disgusted at what happened.
provided detectives with a statement and cooperated and testified at trial, said Magee, who prosecuted the cases with co prosecutor Kelly Lloyd.
Derrick Jackson, 21, of the 800 block of East Howard Street, West Pottsgrove, was convicted by a jury last Friday of charges of first degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and a weapons charge in connection with the shotgun slaying of Sheridan and faces a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
Detectives testified the evidence indicated Derrick Jackson was the triggerman and acted alone in the killing. However, Andre Jackson and Jourdan Harper, another of Derrick Jackson cousins, also were in the apartment at the time, detectives alleged.
Harper also testified and identified Derrick Jackson as the triggerman. Harper, 19, of the 600 block of East Vine Street, West Pottsgrove, also pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in connection with the armed robberies and received a time served sentence earlier this week. Dec. 1 and an autopsy determined she had been shot with a shotgun, from a distance of less than three or four feet, according to the arrest affidavit.
Detectives subsequently developed information that Sheridan murder was not an isolated crime.
fact, Sheridan murder was preceded and followed by shotgun point robberies in Pottstown and West Pottsgrove, respectively, Pottstown Detective Cpl. Thomas Leahan and county Detective John Wittenberger wrote in a criminal complaint. Dec. 1 at King and Manatawny streets. iphone 5s reconditionné Derrick Jackson got out of the car, the shotgun and called to the victims, who ran away, according to testimony. The trio followed one of the victims to King and Penn streets where Derrick Jackson confronted him again and robbed him at gunpoint of his wallet and belongings, according to testimony.
Witnesses, according to a criminal complaint, told detectives the trio then went to Sheridan apartment because Derrick Jackson wanted to collect $20 she owed him for drugs.
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