NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City man has turned down a plea offer after his murder conviction was overturned in a stabbing he calls an assisted suicide.
Kenneth Minor’s lawyer told a judge Tuesday that Minor was rejecting prosecutors’ offer to plead guilty to manslaughter and accept a 14-year sentence. He’s been serving 20 years to life in motivational speaker Jeffrey Locker’s 2009 death.
Minor has said he would admit to a manslaughter charge that involves aiding a suicide. But his lawyer, Daniel Gotlin, said the 14-year sentence was too long. The maximum for that charge is 15 years.
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Minor says Locker approached him for help staging what would look like a deadly robbery, so Locker’s family could collect his life insurance. Investigators found evidence Locker planned his death.
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