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    Ronald McCloud Sentenced to LWOP in 2007 OH Slaying of Janet Barnard

    Prosecutor says Burge didn’t have authority to pick judges

    The Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office wants the Ohio Supreme Court to rule that Lorain County Common Pleas Court Judge James Burge does not have the authority or jurisdiction to handpick a three-judge panel in a death penalty case.

    Assistant Lorain County Prosecutor Billie Jo Belcher filed the paperwork Thursday, stating Burge appointed the three-judge panel to hear the capital murder case of Ronald McCloud, 30, of Elyria, but the panel should have been chosen by Presiding Judge Mark Betleski or the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Burge appointed judges Raymond Ewers and Edward Zaleski to sit on the panel with him.

    McCloud’s trial could begin either Oct. 12 or Dec. 7, depending on the schedule of the trial attorneys.

    Belcher wrote that during a hearing on Oct. 8, Burge said he was allowed to appoint the panel pursuant to a new court resolution, however upon review, Belcher stated “no such local rules of court or resolution exists.”

    The record of the hearing said the appointment order would be signed by Betleski, but Betleski refused to sign the entry because he believed the appointment wasn’t proper, according to Belcher.

    McCloud’s defense attorney Daniel Wightman said he does not agree with the prosecutor’s office.

    “It’s really an argument about nothing,” Wightman said. “Because clearly Judge Burge is the presiding judge of the case and we believe he selected two judges who are qualified to hear and have jurisdiction over the case.”

    George Koury, deputy Lorain County prosecutor, said the writ was filed to the Supreme Court so the trial court can get direction a to what to do in the case of choosing a three-judge panel.

    “We don’t want to wait after the trial and then risk an issue on appeal regarding the selection,” Koury said.

    Burge took the case in 2007 from the docket of retired Visiting Judge Lynett McGough. McCloud is accused if raping and killing 57-year-old Janet Barnard in a bathroom of a Lorain church. He was indicted for four counts of kidnapping, three counts each of murder and aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated murder and single counts of receiving stolen property, tampering with evidence, felonious assault and rape.

    The Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office filed a similar complaint against Burge in the murder trials of Decio Rodgrigues Jr. and Nicole Diar.

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    Murder suspects get in altercation at county jail

    Accused killer Ronald McCloud allegedly attacked fellow accused killer Kevin Kimbrough in a holding cell in the basement of the Lorain County Justice Center on Monday.

    Sheriff’s Capt. Jim Drozdowski said the two men — both of whom could face the death penalty if convicted in separate Lorain killings — were at the courthouse for pretrial hearings when they were placed in a cell together.

    He said Kimbrough, 27, accused McCloud of being a “snitch.” McCloud, 30, told deputies that he was upset with that and somehow managed to slip a hand free from the handcuffs he was wearing and punched Kimbrough in the face, Drozdowski said.

    A deputy passing the holding cell saw the melee and broke it up, Drowdowski said. Kimbrough had a welt near his right eye, he said. Kenneth Lieux and Mike Duff, Kimbrough’s attorneys, said their client never should have been in the same cell as McCloud, who is listed among the witnesses prosecutors may call during Kimbrough’s trial.

    The two men are supposed to be kept separate, they said, because McCloud — who is accused of raping and killing 57-year-old Janet Barnard in a church bathroom in 2005 — has claimed to have information linking Kimbrough to the June 2007 death of 8-month-old Jayden Davidson.

    McCloud sent a letter to Jayden’s mother in which he wrote that Kimbrough had told him he knew how the baby died. Police and prosecutors have said Kimbrough caused the severe head and brain injuries that killed Jayden.

    McCloud’s offer to testify against Kimbrough prompted prosecutors two years ago to press for the removal of defense attorney Dan Wightman — who once represented both Kimbrough and McCloud — from Kimbrough’s case. Wightman, who later removed himself from Kimbrough’s case and continues to represent McCloud, said Monday that he was unaware of the fight and couldn’t comment.

    McCloud’s other defense attorney, Michael Camera, said he has not yet talked to his client about the fight, but he agreed the two men shouldn’t have been sharing a cell.

    He also rejected the accusation that McCloud planned to testify against Kimbrough.

    “McCloud isn’t testifying for the prosecution about anything, so McCloud isn’t a snitch,” he said.

    Drozdowski said part of the ongoing investigation into Monday’s incident centers on how Kimbrough and McCloud ended up in the same cell. He said that the deputies transported a large number of prisoners — 48 — from the county jail to the Justice Center on Monday.

    Kimbrough wants to press charges against McCloud for assault, Duff said.

    “My guy was cuffed, he couldn’t fight back,” he said.

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    McCloud's murder trial going forward

    Murder suspect Ronald McCloud withdrew his insanity plea yesterday and will face trial by a three-judge panel starting on Tuesday. It has been more than five years since McCloud, 30, of Elyria, allegedly raped and killed 57-year-old Janet Barnard, of Lorain, in a bathroom at a Lorain church.

    McCloud could face the death penalty if convicted.

    He was indicted on four counts of kidnapping, three counts each of murder and aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated murder and single counts of receiving stolen property, tampering with evidence, felonious assault and rape.

    McCloud chose to forgo a jury trial and have his case heard by a panel of judges in Lorain County Common Pleas Court. Judge James Burge appointed judges Raymond Ewers and Edward Zaleski to sit on the panel with him.

    McCloud’s attorney Mike Camera could not be reached for comment.

    At a pretrial hearing last week, McCloud slipped out of his handcuffs and attacked fellow inmate and murder suspect Kevin Kimbrough in a holding cell at the Lorain County Justice Center.

    A report, made available yesterday, detailed how McCloud could have slipped from his handcuffs. Sheriff’s Lt. Doug Newman identified three scenarios — handcuffs were placed improperly on McCloud, handcuffs were defective or McCloud is double-jointed or physically able to free himself from handcuffs.

    Newman wrote in the report he doesn’t “believe it is possible to definitively determine how McCloud was able to free himself from the handcuffs.”

    “However, given the possibility that he may be able to free himself, I believe additional security measures should be taken when transporting McCloud,” Newman wrote.

    “These measures may include, but not be limited to, placing McCloud in full restraints, handcuffing McCloud from behind, the use of plastic quick-cuffs and housing McCloud by himself.”

    Sheriff’s Capt. Jim Drozdowski said Kimbrough originally intended to press assault charges against McCloud, however, the Elyria city prosecutor said charges could not be pursued because both men are capital murder suspects.

    Kimbrough and McCloud had a separation order placed on them in 2007 after they got into a verbal altercation at the Lorain County Jail. Kimbrough is accused of killing a friend’s 8-month-old son, Jayden Davidson, in June 2007.

    Because there haven’t been any problems with the two since then, “red flags” were not raised when the two men were taken from the jail to the courthouse, according to Drozdowski.

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    ‘Gentle’ woman, violent death: Five years after murder of Janet Barnard, Ronald McCloud going to trial

    JANET BARNARD was remembered by neighbors in Elyria as the “friendly” and “gentle” middle-aged woman who kept to herself. Single, she was devoted to raising six Siamese kittens in her apartment and to doing volunteer work at her church in Lorain.

    It was there, at Living Water Christian Fellowship Church on Gary Avenue in South Lorain that her body was found in the men’s restroom on Sunday morning, June 5, 2005.

    She had been raped and strangled the previous day, investigators said.

    From the start, police had only one suspect, Ronald Fountain McCloud, then 25, of Lorain. He had been released on parole in 2004 from a six-year prison sentence for a 1998 aggravated robbery in Elyria.

    It was at McCloud’s home on Chelsea Avenue that police found Janet’s 1990 Ford Crown Victoria that Sunday in 2005, but not McCloud.

    McCloud eluded police for two days until he walked into the Lorain police station, accompanied by well-known Cleveland defense attorney Stanley Tolliver.

    Tolliver and McCloud’s mother, Cynthia McCloud, maintained McCloud had nothing to do with Barnard’s death. Tolliver merely said it was not in McCloud’s best interest to be on the street with police looking for him.

    McCloud was held on $1 million bond after being arraigned in Lorain Municipal Court on charges of receiving stolen property and tampering with evidence, to which he pleaded innocent.

    Eventually, McCloud was indicted by a grand jury on four counts of kidnapping, three counts each of murder and aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated murder and single counts of receiving stolen property, tampering with evidence, felonious assault and rape. He pleaded insanity, but last week changed his plea to innocent.

    On Tuesday, five and a half years after Janet Barnard was murdered, McCloud, now 30, goes on trial for her killing. He could face the death penalty if convicted.

    Controversies

    McCloud waived his right to a jury trial and requested that his case be heard by a three-judge panel in Lorain County Common Pleas Court. The panel includes judges James Burge, Raymond Ewers and Edward Zaleski.

    Selection of the panel involved legal controversy.

    Lorain County Prosecutor Dennis Will challenged Burge’s authority to pick the other judges on the panel, rather than having that choice be made by the court’s presiding judge, Mark Betleski, or by the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. But the Supreme Court dismissed Will’s lawsuit in September.

    Burge got the McCloud case in 2007 from the docket of a retired judge.

    In 2008, Burge ruled that Ohio’s three-drug cocktail for lethal injection was unconstitutional. It was a ruling he noted would apply only to the local cases of McCloud and Ruben Rivera. The two Death Row inmates also had earlier sued in federal court, challenging Ohio’s execution method as being “cruel and unusual punishment.”

    Burge wrote in a journal entry in McCloud’s case that “the drugs create an unnecessary risk that the condemned will experience an agonizing and painful death.” He said the law requires that death be caused “quickly and painlessly.”

    In 2009, the state changed over to a single-drug lethal injection method that will “cause death rapidly and without the possibility of causing pain to the condemned.”

    A case of murder


    According to court documents in the Barnard murder case, McCloud told friends and family he was in a relationship with Barnard and he was often seen driving her car or being dropped off by his mother at the Living Water Christian Fellowship Church, Barnard’s church, where pastor Terry Grapenthin found her body.

    McCloud allegedly strangled Barnard during the rape and evidence shows the 57-year-old woman struggled during the murder, court documents indicate.

    Investigators believe McCloud moved her to the bathroom to cover up evidence — a conclusion police came to because some of Barnard’s personal property was found in the hallway of the church, records show.

    McCloud’s DNA was found at the scene, the records state.

    Following the rape and killing, McCloud allegedly took Barnard’s vehicle and drove it close to his mother’s home, where he then removed a bag from the car and hid it inside the home.

    Defense attorney Michael Camera, who is on McCloud’s legal team with attorney Daniel Wightman, said Friday that the prosecutor’s office has provided them with a “serious amount of evidence.”

    “All clients in a murder case are nervous regardless of innocence or guilt; it’s a nerve-wracking ordeal,” Camera said. “Both Mr. Wightman and I have practiced law for more than 30 years and are prepared to try the case.”

    McCloud pleaded innocent to the crime and he has maintained his innocence to friends and family through letters he has sent from the Lorain County Jail. He has also written to Burge on several occasions asking to be allowed to testify in his trial.

    Camera said McCloud maintains his plea of innocent and has been “cooperative and helpful, as well as his family, in putting together his case.” McCloud, who has a tattoo on his left arm bearing a cross and a tattoo on his right arm that says “trust no one,” will also take the stand at some point during the trial, Camera said.

    Mental evaluation

    Dr. Cathleen Cerny, who evaluated McCloud in 2006 after McCloud pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, interviewed several people close to McCloud and discovered he was an aggressive and often untrusting child. Cynthia McCloud told Cerny she was married to his father, Ronald McCloud Sr., for 30 years before the pair separated and she didn’t know if her son was ever abused.

    When asked about his childhood, McCloud told Cerny he didn’t know who his parents were, and he said he was “raised by demons.”

    “He also told me that he has ‘always existed’ and that he came from ‘Allah,’” the doctor wrote. She stated McCloud also asked if she had ever been tortured and told her that he was the one “doing the torture ... It was a fantasy life.”

    When asked about his education – McCloud quit high school after the 10th grade and got his GED in prison – he told the doctor he didn’t know if he finished school.

    McCloud’s mother told the doctor he had behavioral problems.

    McCloud also couldn’t clarify if he had a son – his mother told Cerny he did – but instead he said he had “thousands of kids” who were “more like followers.”

    Cynthia McCloud told the doctor Ronald was living with a girlfriend, who was not named and is the mother of his only child, during the summer of 2005 before he left her for Barnard.

    Cerny also wrote that McCloud had been writing a friend from prison, and he pleaded for the man to tell his attorneys about the relationship he maintained with Barnard. McCloud maintained his innocence in the letters.

    The doctor diagnosed McCloud with psychotic disorder, but could not give an opinion whether he was competent to stand trial.

    McCloud withdrew his insanity plea last week.

    Camera, the defense attorney, declined comment on McCloud’s mental state, and said he is “leaving (McCloud’s mental diagnosis) to the experts” and he “expects the state and the judges are doing the same.”

    ‘Additional security’

    In a holding cell while at the Lorain County Justice Center last month for a pretrial hearing, McCloud somehow slipped out of his handcuffs and allegedly punched another inmate, Kevin Kimbrough, in the face after calling Kimbrough a snitch. The two were supposed to have been kept separated because of a history of trouble between them. A sheriff’s report on the incident stated that “additional security measures should be taken when transporting McCloud.”

    On Tuesday, McCloud will be returned to a courtroom in the Justice Center in Elyria, and after more than five years, he will be tried for the murder of Janet Barnard. The trial is expected to last through Friday.

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    McCloud found guilty; could get death sentence

    Ronald McCloud Jr. could be sentenced to death after being convicted today of killing Lorain church worker Janet Barnard while raping her.

    A three-judge panel deliberated an hour and twenty-five minutes before convicting McCloud on most of the charges against him, including aggravated murder and rape. McCloud was cleared of two counts of kidnapping.

    McCloud, 30, sat quietly as the verdicts were read.

    Smiles of relief spread across the faces of Barnard’s family, including her sister Sharon Kaczmarczyk, as the verdict was read.

    “I’m glad this phase is over,” Kaczmarczyk said. “I’ve waited 5 ½ years.”

    Barnard was strangled on June 4, 2005, at Living Water Christian Fellowship Church in Lorain.

    The judges will return on Jan. 6 for the penalty phase of the trial where they will hear from experts including psychologists for the prosecution and defense before deciding whether McCloud’s crimes warrant a death sentence.

    Michael Camera, one of McCloud’s attorneys, said McCloud “was prepared for the verdict.”

    McCloud was convicted of specifications that would permit him to be executed and the least he could serve would be 25 years, Camera said, if spared death.

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    Convicted murderer Ronald McCloud faces being put to death

    Ronald McCloud will face a panel of three judges again this morning to find out whether his punishment for raping and killing 57-year-old Janet Barnard in June 2005 will be a death sentence.

    Barnard’s body was found in the bathroom of the Living Water Christian Fellowship Church on June 5, 2005, by the church’s pastor. According to evidence and witness testimony during the first phase of the trial, Barnard put up a struggle before she was beaten and strangled. McCloud’s DNA was found at the scene and on Barnard’s body, according to expert testimony.

    McCloud was found guilty of two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, rape, felonious assault, receiving stolen property and tampering with evidence on Dec. 10. He had his case heard before a panel composed of Common Pleas Court judges James Burge, Raymond Ewers and Edward Zaleski. The judges acquitted him of two counts of kidnapping.

    McCloud could receive the death penalty, life in prison without parole or a lesser sentence of 25 years to life.

    Michael Camera, who is representing McCloud along with attorney Daniel Wightman, said there will be several members of McCloud’s family testifying during the penalty phase of the trial “as to the horrendous home life for Ronald McCloud.”

    Camera said he found it “shocking” to hear about McCloud’s upbringing and how he was raised made an impact on how he lived the rest of his life — including the murder of Barnard.

    “In interviewing the witnesses, no one was prepared to talk about or to go back into the past and talk about their upbringing. It’s been very difficult for all of our witnesses,” Camera said.

    The defense team plans on calling about 10 witnesses, Camera said, and he expects the prosecutors — Tony Cillo and Laura Dezort — will call a psychologist to “pick apart” the psychologist the defense plans on calling.

    McCloud is planning on taking the stand, Camera said, but most likely after all the witnesses have been called.

    “Generally, when we have a criminal case, we like to put our client on last. You have the advantage because he is able to hear all the evidence and statements, and he will be prepared and better suited to testify at the end.”

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    McCloud’s home life groomed him to be killer, psychologist testifies

    The home 30-year-old Ronald McCloud grew up in was the right home to raise and groom a killer, according to testimony from Dr. John Matthew Fabian, a psychologist brought in by defense attorneys to testify at McCloud’s trial.

    Fabian was the only witness to testify yesterday during the penalty phase of McCloud’s capital murder trial. Last month, McCloud was found guilty of raping and murdering 57-year-old Janet Barnard, whose body was found June 5, 2005 in the bathroom of Living Water Christian Fellowship Church. A panel of three Lorain County Common Pleas judges will decide if McCloud gets a prison sentence or the death penalty.

    Fabian was brought in to discuss the factors that made McCloud into the man he is today — the man who would commit a sexual homicide, Fabian said. When Fabian first took the stand, he called McCloud a “disturbed individual,” who was often standoffish in his interviews with the doctor. Fabian testified he started interviewing McCloud in July 2009, and McCloud often exaggerated his mental instability.

    “There was significant residential instability within the family and the community ... These are factors contributing to violence,” Fabian testified as he was questioned by defense attorney Daniel Wightman.

    Fabian echoed the testimony of McCloud’s mother, Cynthia McCloud, and his three sisters. The sisters testified they were beaten badly by their mother and sexually, physically, emotionally and mentally mistreated. Fabian said Cynthia McCloud’s actions of locking her children in the basement or in closets was excessive.

    Fabian also said the physical abuse plays a factor in McCloud’s antisocial personality disorder and other personality disorders that affect his ability to control his impulses and know right from wrong. Fabian said the sexual abuse he endured, such as being prostituted for drug money and the abuse McCloud witnessed his sister’s go through, play a role in his development.

    From 1980 to 2004, “there was complete parental dysfunction,” Fabian said. “We are talking three decades of damage.”

    On cross-examination, Assistant Lorain County Prosecutor Tony Cillo pointed out that earlier testimony had shown McCloud’s sisters were beaten even worse than McCloud, yet they did not kill anyone. Fabian said he saw Cillo’s point.

    McCloud also had poor education history, with dropping grades and poor attendance. His IQ is at 72 and Fabian said while he does have “a bad brain,” he is not mentally retarded.

    Fabian said it has been his experience that most sexual homicides — Barnard was raped, beaten and strangled — stem from the household and “parental deviance.” McCloud’s father was a heroin addict and his mother did crack cocaine and both were abusive, according to testimony.

    “You are looking at damaged attachment,” Fabian said. “The parent, or the root, is essential to development of personality.”

    Fabian added most people who commit sexual homicide are people who have not developed right in society and because of McCloud’s upbringing, his lens of the world is “cracked” and “damaged.”

    Fabian also testified a person with antisocial personality disorder should have a structured environment, and McCloud lacked that because his family often moved and because there was a “role reversal,” in which the children took care of the parents.

    Cillo asked Fabian if he was aware of McCloud’s jail records, because a jail is a structured environment, however last month McCloud slipped out of his handcuffs and attacked another inmate. Prior to that, records show he tried to shank an inmate.

    Cillo also drew on the interviews from Cynthia McCloud because she didn’t start opening up to Fabian until it was closer to mitigation, or penalty, phase of the trial. Cillo asked if Fabian assumed Cynthia McCloud could have been lying to save her son from the death penalty.

    “I think you’re assuming she is,” Fabian answered.

    When Wightman and Cillo were finished asking questions, Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge, who sits on the three-judge panel with Edward Zaleski and Raymond Ewers, asked Fabian if a person with antisocial personality disorder was a psychopath. Fabian said no.

    “All psychopaths have antisocial personality disorder, but not all antisocials are psychopaths,” Fabian said. “It’s a different construct.”

    Burge also asked in his questioning if McCloud was essentially being trained to be a killer because of his childhood and teenage environment.

    “The McCloud household, can you image a better environment to raise a killer?” Burge asked and Fabian said no.

    Cillo objected to Burge’s question, stating he did not believe the judge’s question was impartial. Cillo redirected his questions to Fabian asking about Fabian’s full knowledge in psychopathy.

    “As an expert witness, I think it’s unethical for me to assess Ronnie as a psychopath right now,” Fabian said.

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    Judges deciding if McCloud will get death penalty

    A three-judge panel that will decide whether convicted killer and rapist Ronald McCloud Jr. lives or dies began deliberating at about 10 a.m. today after hearing closing arguments in the penalty phase of his trial.

    McCloud, 30, looked serious and frowned slightly as attorneys argued about whether mitigating factors, including his difficult youth, outweigh factors involving the brutal killing of 57-year-old Lorain church worker Janet Barnard who was strangled and left partially clothed in a bathroom.

    Defense attorney Daniel Wightman said risk factors — including trauma from being beaten, locked in closets and forced to fight the battles of his mother, a crack cocaine addict — “is not an excuse but it’s a factor in shaping what he did.”

    “I don’t characterize this as a tough childhood…it’s far beyond that,” Wightman said.

    But Assistant County Prosecutor Tony Cillo questioned the quality of the evidence saying that McCloud’s family met as a unit with the psychologist hired by the defense.

    “If the state of Ohio did that we would have been criticized to no end,” Cillo said.

    “Mr. McCloud is the worst offender and this is the worst offense,” Cillo said.

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    Death penalty verdict nears: Murder case 5 years in the making; McCloud in court Tuesday

    On Tuesday, 30-year-old Ronald McCloud will learn if he will live or die for the 2005 murder of Janet Barnard, a decision that is coming from a panel of three judges who have spent roughly the past two weeks deliberating.

    Lorain County Common Pleas Court Judge James Burge, who sits on the three-judge panel with Edward Zaleski and Raymond Ewers, said after two hours of deliberations on Jan. 11, the judges would need time to think about the decision.

    McCloud, of Lorain, was found guilty last month of the rape and murder of 57-year-old Barnard, who was found in the bathroom of the Living Water Christian Fellowship Church on June 5, 2005, by the church’s pastor.

    According to evidence and witness testimony during the first phase of the trial, Barnard put up a struggle before she was beaten and strangled. McCloud’s DNA was found at the scene and on Barnard’s body, according to expert testimony.

    On Jan. 11, assistant Lorain County prosecutors Laura Dezort and Tony Cillo gave their closing arguments and told the judges they believed the nature of the crime warrants the death penalty. Defense attorney Daniel Wightman told the judges they must consider McCloud’s heinous childhood when determining the penalty.

    McCloud could receive the death penalty, life in prison without parole or a lesser sentence of 25 years to life. He was found guilty of two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, rape, felonious assault and other charges. It requires a unanimous decision from the judges in order to sentence McCloud to death.

    Barnard’s family, including her sister, Sharon Kaczmarczyk, were present throughout the trial. She said the family was prepared for a verdict on Jan. 11 and have been upset it has taken five years to prosecute McCloud.

    She added the family is awaiting closure.

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    Ronald McCloud spared death for 2005 church murder

    ELYRIA — Ronald McCloud Jr. has been sentenced to life without parole for the 2005 rape and murder of church worker Janet Barnard.

    McCloud, 30, could have faced the death penalty.

    Judge James Burge refused to order death. Judges Edward Zaleski and Raymond Ewers had wanted to impose the death penalty, but a unanimous decision was required for a death sentence.

    McCloud made a statement in which he blamed “growing up demented as I did” for his actions.

    Barnard’s sister, Sharon Kaczmarczyk, said, “We accept your sentence of a more lenient sentence.”

    Burge said his aunt had been raped and murdered in her home.

    “Naturally, the family circled the wagons like Ms. Barnard’s did,” he said.

    Prosecutors chose life without parole for his aunt’s 19-year-old attacker, Burge said, and he asked Barnard’s family not to hate McCloud.

    “When we hate, it’s like taking poison,” he said.

    Kaczmarczyk said, “He needs to serve his punishment.”

    Burge replied, “I agree, 100 percent.”

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