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Bartow, Florida - A Guatemalan man has been convicted of impregnating an 11-year-old, who he sexually abused since she was 9 years old. Today Circuit Judge Jalal Harb sentenced 25 year old Rony Mendez to life imprisonment for raping the young girl. The jury of 4 men and 2 woman… ....
Bartow, Florida - A Guatemalan man has been convicted of impregnating an 11-year-old, who he sexually abused since she was 9 years old. Today Circuit Judge Jalal Harb sentenced 25 year old Rony Mendez to life imprisonment for raping the young girl. The jury of 4 men and 2 woman… ....
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As Circuit Judge Jalal Harb sat at the bench in a Bartow courtroom on Feb. 5, he held the power to usher Cheyanne Jessie into a unique category. Having been convicted of killing her father and her 6-year-old daughter, Jessie faced the possibility of becoming the first woman sentenced to death in Polk County. A jury had recommended that Jessie be executed for the fatal shooting and stabbing of her daughter, Meredith, in 2015, while suggesting a life sentence for her father’s murder. Instead, Harb sentenced Jessie to life for both killings. That decision placed her in another rare category: convicted murderers who have had jury recommendations of a death penalty overridden by a judge. ....
LAKELAND A jury voted Tuesday morning to convict James “Jimbo” Pennington of first-degree murder in the 2017 killing of a neighbor in the Indian Lake Estates community. The jury deliberated about 4½ hours over two days in the first murder trial held in 10th Judicial Circuit Court since trials were curtailed by a state order amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After the jury announced the verdict, Circuit Judge Jalal Harb sentenced Pennington to mandatory life in prison for the killing of Devyn Martin in October 2017. Harb also dispensed a concurrent five-year sentence for tampering with physical evidence. Pennington, now 67, fatally shot Martin after the pair got into an argument on Pennington’s property, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported at the time. An investigation found that Martin arrived at Pennington’s home on a golf cart the afternoon of Oct. 26, 2017, and began talking to Christopher Walters, who was repairing a bike in the yard. ....