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By Ed Balint, The Canton Repository CANTON A mistrial was declared Thursday after jurors couldn't reach a verdict in the case of a woman who contends she fatally shot her husband in self-defense after a confrontation in a vehicle in a church parking lot. Deliberations began Tuesday morning and totaled about 25 hours before jurors said they were deadlocked over the fate of Classie Hawthorne in Stark County Common Pleas Court. The 36-year-old Canton woman is charged with voluntary manslaughter and felonious assault in the death of Cleveland Hawthorne in May 2018. The trial began las...
They made small talk, exchanged greetings but didn't know each other well. But on May 21, 2018, she found herself rushing to find Cleveland Hawthorne on his stomach in a nearby church parking lot on Concord Avenue SW. He had been shot in the chest and was taking his last breaths. "I was tapping him and saying, 'Come on, come on,'" Maxwell recounted, her voice weakening. She heard him moaning. "I was just crying, talking to him and he took one last moan, and that was it." Maxwell described those events while testifying Thursday on the second day of Classie Hawthorne's voluntary manslaughte...