State v. Whitley

MCCRODDEN, Judge.

On 13 November 1992, Cornelia Whitley, daughter of defendant in the instant case, pleaded guilty to the murder of Lisa D. Crews. Whitley and Crews had been involved in a relationship for a period of eight years prior to the murder. The two women shared the parenting responsibilities of Crews’s two-year-old son, Joshua Michael Bradley. On 16 November 1992, defendant entered a plea of guilty to the charge of accessory after the fact, admitting the allegation in the indictment that, following the murder, she helped her daughter dispose of Crews’s body. At the sentencing hearing,…