The charges include murder counts that carry a mandatory life-in-prison sentence.
in November have been upgraded to the most serious murder counts available under Virginia law, ones that carry a mandatory life sentence, a prosecutor announced Friday.A special grand jury returned 13 charges against Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. on Wednesday, including aggravated murder for the slayings of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis and D’Sean Perry. The three football players were fatally shot on a charter bus that had just returned to the U-Va. campus from a field trip on Nov. 13..
Hingeley said he only intends to seek three convictions for aggravated murder, but obtained two sets of charges under different code sections for strategic reasons. “These alternate theories of guilt with different elements give the Commonwealth the widest latitude in presenting evidence, but ultimately the Commonwealth is seeking three convictions of aggravated murder, not six,” Hingeley said.
Elizabeth P. Murtagh, the public defender representing Jones, wrote in an email that “we are very disappointed that the prosecutor chose this way to proceed,” but declined to comment on Jones’s guilt or innocence on the charges.Police have not released a motive in the shooting, and those who know Jones have struggled to make sense of what happened. A prosecutor said at Jones’s arraignment in November that a witness said Jones appeared to be targeting his victims, but gave no reason.
Jones waived his preliminary hearing on the original charges in August, and the next hearing in his case is scheduled for Oct. 2. No trial date has been set. Hingeley said in his statement that the special grand jury was empaneled in May and had been meeting for several months before returning the latest indictments.
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