SNOW HILL- A Texas man sentenced already to life in prison for the murder of a Delaware woman killed in Pocomoke in 2007 and found years later buried under a Snow Hill pleaded guilty again last Friday after his initial trial was turned over on appeal and now faces life in prison with all but 30 years suspended.
Justin Hadel, now 24, of College Station, Texas, was found guilty of first-degree murder in June 2011 for the beating death of Christine Sheddy, a 26-year-old Delaware woman reported missing in November 2007 from a farm near Pocomoke where she had been staying with friends. Hadel was sentenced at the time to life in prison without parole.
Last year, Hadel filed an appeal in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals seeking an overturn of his conviction on a variety of reasons. First and foremost, he claimed his conviction should be overturned because he was denied the opportunity to change his lawyer just four days before his scheduled trial. The Court of Special Appeals upheld Hadel’s conviction, but he filed a second appeal with the higher Court of Appeals, which overturned the Worcester County Circuit Court conviction and remanded the case back to the Circuit Court level for a new trial.
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3 comments:
Yay! Give him a plea deal, so he can do it again in 30 years. What a joke.
Why is this pos even permitted to appeal. Judaical system is all screwed up
Would have been interesting to get more facts revealved about this murder. Common knowledge is that an anon source and not junior jackson as is widely believed led a deputy to the remains. Maybe the junior story was concocted to not jepordize the safety of the anon informant. I think most people think because they heard they all had been staying at the inn for a few days because they had a fire and a big hole was cut in the roof in pocomoke adn the whole house was soaked so they couldn't stay there and electric had been shut off there to.
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