PEARISBURG â A Giles County man who three years ago led a home invasion that turned fatal for one of the would-be robbers asked last week for leniency for his younger co-defendants, requesting that a judge âplace the burden on me.â
David Joseph Cecil, 51, then was sentenced to serve 43 years in prison, with decades more time behind bars suspended.
Cecil, who said he was in poor health and whose attorney said any lengthy prison term could effectively become a life sentence, drew 35 years for the deadly home invasion â a Jan. 3, 2018, attempt to rob a neighbor who he thought had money and drugs.