Dumb & Dumber
Dumb:
On the verge of a deal that could cut his potential prison sentence in half, a Chillicothe man inexplicably balked and refused to plead to a lesser crime on Friday.
Maurice R. Martin, 33, faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated domestic battery and two counts of aggravated battery for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend in the chest on Sept. 11, 2007.
At the request of the girlfriend, Alicia Meyers, 23, also of Chillicothe, Peoria County prosecutors were willing to drop the attempted murder charge and its maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. Instead, he would have pleaded to the aggravated domestic battery and faced up to 13 years behind bars, one year shy of the maximum for that charge.
A Chillicothe woman says she wrote a false statement regarding her boyfriend because she didn’t want him to get in trouble for stabbing her in the chest last fall.
Alicia Meyers, 23, at first told police Maurice Martin stabbed her in the chest on Sept. 11 after the two had argued in her car. But then in December, she wrote a new statement saying she plunged a large, almost medieval-looking knife into her chest because she wanted to die. She said she didn’t want Martin to break up with her and leave for Chicago.
[...] Assistant State’s Attorney Deborah Shelby noted Meyers originally told police it was Martin who stabbed her just above her heart with the 8-inch blade. Meyers testified she kept the knife in the car for protection.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Never argue with a woman that keeps a large medieval-looking knife in her car, nothing good can come from it.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I read this yesterday and had the same reaction you did. These people totally deserve each other.
January 11th, 2008 at 9:03 am
“Never argue with a woman that keeps a large medieval-looking knife in her car, nothing good can come from it.”
Hmmm… maybe I need to start keeping “a large medieval-looking knife” in my car. Or maybe in my purse…