Lawyer asks for "wayward" client to be locked up
Evans was on bail.
At a sentencing hearing on March 28, 2012, defense lawyer Richard Rowe told the court that from his observation “it appears that Evans is influenced.”
“He has demonstrated a lack of care for himself…there is no way I am seeking to justify my client’s actions. He was only 17 at the time, and was not mature enough to understand the consequences of his action. He needs a short, sharp shock…he needs help,” Rowe said during mitigation.
Evans was fingered in the December 4, 2009 robbery where Franklyn Montgomery, who lives on St. John, was brutally attacked and robbed of his chains and a pendant. The incident occurred sometime after 9 pm in Baughers Bay.
According to Rowe, his client had no intention to rob Montgomery.
“There is no evidence to that effect... Two of them were fighting during the time and he [Evans] held on to the chain that was around his neck and burst them off. His explanation was I was going out to the movies and he dirty my clothes.”
Rowe continued, “Why we pled guilty in the circumstance was because he kept the chains that were burst off...and he took the chains to a friend’s house and hid them.”
Meanwhile, Senior Crown Counsel Valston Graham informed the court that Evans tried to conceal the pendant by dismantling a fan and concealing it in the console.
Before Judge Rita Olivetti hands down her sentence later this afternoon, several character witnesses will be called on behalf of the 19 year-old.
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