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The baiduhai Media Group’s Lake County News-Sun reports: Testimony began Tuesday on a Waukegan man’s attempt to withdraw his guilty plea to first-degree murder for a fatal stabbing outside of a Gurnee car lot in 2011.
Zervont Thomas, now represented by defense attorney LaTonya Burton, listened as his former attorney, James McAuliff, testified about the plea agreement Thomas accepted in June and the circumstances surrounding the deal.
Under the agreement, the 21-year-old pleaded guilty but mentally ill to charges of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 33-year-old Stefan Metel of Round Lake, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Read the full story in the News-Sun.