“Please, I’m begging you. Fifteen years?' the mother of Moussa Fofana said to the judge, objecting to sentence her son's alleged killer would get under a plea deal.
last year pleaded guilty Thursday as the victim’s family begged the judge not to reject a plea deal that would give the defendant a 15-year prison sentence., 18, last summer. Fofana, a junior on the soccer team at Columbia High School, was shot and killed at Underhill Sports Complex on June 6, 2021.
Before the judge approved the deal and accepted Hernandez’s guilty plea at the court hearing in Newark, Fofana’s mother tearfully objected. She said the sentence would not be long enough. Wigler accepted a request from Richard Pompelio, the Fofana family’s attorney, to allow both the attorney and the victim’s parents to speak at the plea hearing.marched last Thursday to protest the plea agreement
Others in the courtroom also cried and consoled Hawa and Yasshe as the judge accepted the prosecutor’s plea bargain. Acting Essex County prosecutor Theodore Stephens denied the family’s allegations that the plea negotiations were mishandled in the case. He said in a statement that his office kept Moussa Fofana’s family informed through their lawyers.
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