The mother of a young man allegedly beaten to death near a St. Louis transit station slammed District Attorney Kimberly Gardner after she essentially accidentally found out the prosecutor's office had forged an 8-year plea deal with the suspect without her knowledge.
Dr. Shirley Washington-Cobb, whose son Dwight Washington was allegedly murdered on February 15, 2020, told"The Story" that under previous prosecuting attorneys, an eight-year plea deal was considered"absurd" and that the office would have sought a 20-year sentence against suspect Jarmond Johnson that could at most be reduced to 18 years.
"[U]pon that call, which I considered to be just a routine call, I was then instructed by a prosecuting attorney who had taken over the case that [the original sentencing agreement] was not the case at all – that they had accepted a plea deal," she said. "Kim Gardner is to blame because she’s the leader of – the alleged head of this department, but yet her office has a new prosecutor, which her office did not make me aware of. The prosecutor was in and of himself not prepared to handle my son’s case," she said.
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