Markus Austin News Today

BARRE — Citing a change in the state’s earned time law for those in prison, Jayveon Caballero is asking for a partial sentence reconsideration that could see his sentence reduced

A man found guilty of what police say was the first murder in Montpelier, Vermont, in almost a century is appealing his conviction to the Vermont Supreme Court.

The 2017 murder was the first in the Vermont capital since a woman shot her husband in the 1920s.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A man found guilty of what police say was the first murder in Montpelier, Vermont, in almost a century is appealing his conviction to the Vermont Supreme Court. Jayveon Caballero was found guilty by a jury in November 2019 of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Markus Austin, 33, in January 2017.

MONTPELIER — A man found guilty of what police say was the first murder in Montpelier in almost a century is appealing his conviction to the Vermont Supreme Court.