Repeat felon gets prison sentence in strangulation of adoptive father
An 11-time felon who strangled his adoptive father in Manitou Springs while free on parole was sent back to prison Tuesday. Fourth Judicial District Judge Timothy J. Schutz imposed a 12-year sentence against Bobby Joe Berry in the May killing of 70-year-old Darrell Berry. The penalty was set under terms of a December plea deal in which Berry agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter. In exchange, prosecutors dismissed a first-degree murder charge against him. “I didn’t expect none of this to happen,” Berry, 44, told the court. “My dad was all I had left. I don’t know how the future’s...
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