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Something not quite right.(Derrick Phillips)
Authorities arrested Derrick Phillips for attempted first-degree murder when he shot two men in Tucson, Arizona, on April 25 of last year. He was incarcerated for 448 days. During that time, he "spent two birthdays in jail, saw his financial situation fall into ruins and had a brother pass away," the Arizona Daily Star paraphrased him as saying. He was then found not guilty on all charges by a jury and freed.
Was he a wanton criminal who escaped justice because of a technicality or was something more at play? On the day of his arrest, Phillips was working as a maintenance man at an apartment complex. The apartment property manager, Roblyn Gravitt, had called police and told them that a tenant was allowing her boyfriend to sell drugs out of her apartment. The police searched the apartment and found drugs, but didn't arrest anyone. They wanted to "return the following day."
Phillips described the situation to the Star: "They just left us there with the drug dealers. It was like someone going and kicking a beehive and once the bees start to swarm, the person leaves. I mean, someone is going to get stung." Gravitt decided that she and Phillips should leave the property to avoid a ...
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...Wednesday found him guilty of first-degree murder. The verdict, rendered by Court of...which would make him guilty of first-degree murder, or in an unintentional fashion, which would have made him guilty of third-degree murder or manslaughter. The first-degree...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Lawrence Feinberg May 19, 1989 700+ words
...sentence for persons convicted of first-degree murder here from 20 years to 13 years and...no substantial penalty for first-degree murder," U.S. Attorney Jay B. Stephens...penalty for those convicted of first-degree murder," Stephens declared. "Those who...
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...Ervin, 19, guilty of second-degree murder and not guilty of two more serious...aggravated premeditated first-degree murder; eight favoring guilt and four for acquittal on attempted first-degree murder; and nine favoring guilt and...
