This plea deal comes after the prosecution dropped two other murder charges against 33-year-old Delonzo Logwood, citing problems with a key witness.
Delonzo Logwood pleaded "no contest" to voluntary manslaughter in the 2008 Oakland murder-for-hire care, and now possibly faces a lesser sentence.In Alameda Superior Court Thursday, 33-year-old Delonzo Logwood pleaded "no contest" to voluntary manslaughter in a murder-for-hire plot, and now faces a possible 12-year prison sentence. This plea deal comes after the prosecution dropped two other murder charges against Logwood, citing problems with a key witness.
But, Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court, Prosecutor Nick Homer told the judge, DL refuses to testify and that several other witnesses contradict his story.Homer wrote, "DL was lying in whole or in part when he testified at the preliminary hearing." The prosecutor now says he doesn't know who pulled the trigger.
Briggs said Logwood pleaded "no contest" to voluntary manslaughter and a gun enhancement that bring 12 years in state prison, not because he killed Ford, but to avoid a potentially greater sentence if he went to trial. "We know that people get wrongfully convicted. And they can get wrongfully convicted in a case like this. That has a lot of publicity. We just felt like we had to give Mr. Logwood some assurance that he would have a life after this case is over.
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