State v. Hall

The defendant, Jeremiah Ethan Hall, was originally indicted on a charge of first degree murder in the shotgun slaying of Paul Lucas Adams during a robbery. Shortly before the defendant was scheduled to be tried on a lesser charge of second degree murder, he pled guilty to a responsive charge of manslaughter and to a new bill of information for armed robbery. The guilty pleas were pursuant to an agreement whereby he would receive agreed sentences of 40 years at hard labor for manslaughter and 50 years without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence for armed robbery, with the…