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Placidi entered a not guilty plea on Welch s behalf at the arraignment.
Welch is facing trial on charges including first- and second-degree murder in the shooting death of Nadolny on March 23, prosecutors stated in court on Monday. Mead tentatively scheduled Welch s trial for Oct. 12.
The same tentative trial date was given to 20-year-old Erie resident Lexus M. Conner, who was also charged by Millcreek Township police in Nadolny s death. She faces a general count of criminal homicide and other charges.
First-degree murder is a premeditated killing. Second-degree murder is a killing committed during a robbery or other felony. Convictions for both carry a life sentence with no parole.
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When he was sentenced to prison on Aug. 17, 1999, Carl Anthony Knight had every reason to believe he would die an inmate.
Knight was convicted under the federal kingpin statute for leading the largest crack cocaine ring to operate in Erie up to that time. He and his associates were accused of smuggling crack weighing a total of 458 pounds 208 kilograms from New York City to Erie from 1993 to 1997.
The total value of the drugs at the time: $20.8 million.
Knight was the first person in Erie to be found guilty as a drug kingpin. A jury at the federal courthouse on Perry Square convicted him in 40 minutes on April 7, 1999. Four months later, at 28 years old, he got the mandatory sentence that went along with his ignominious role as the leader of a massive ring that trafficked in crack: a life term in federal prison.