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    Hargrove guilty in 3 slayings

    A Richmond County Superior Court jury convicted Adrian Hargrove of all charges Friday in the 2008 death of a pregnant teen and her parents.

    The trial will continue Monday in the penalty phase of the trial. At the conclusion the jury will be asked to decide Hargrove’s punishment for murder _ life in prison with or without the possibility of parole or death.

    On Feb. 9, 2008, Hargrove murdered 18-year-old Allyson Pederson and her parents Sharon and Andrew Hartley. Each of the victims was repeatedly stabbed and beaten.

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    Penalty phase begins in triple homicide trial

    As Adrian Hargrove’s trial moved into the sentencing phase Monday, jurors learned the man they convicted of a triple murder had infected a 5-year-old child with gonorrhea 15 years earlier.

    Hargrove, 36, was found guilty Friday in the stabbing and beating deaths of 18-year-old Allyson Pederson and her parents, Sharon and Andrew Hartley.

    Prosecutors began presenting their case Monday in Richmond County Superior Court in hope of convincing the jury to sentence Hargrove to death.

    In her opening statement, defense attorney April Herbert said the defense will ask the jury to pick life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    Pederson, who was pregnant, and the Hartleys were killed Feb. 9, 2008.

    About 10 years before the murders, Hargrove sexually assaulted his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter. Now a young woman, the victim testified that her memory of what happened has faded, but she remembers bleeding and the need to take medicine because of what Hargrove did.

    Marie Loftis, who retired from the Franklin County De*partment of Family and Chil*dren Services, testified that she investigated what happened to the child in 1998.

    The girl told her that Hargrove had sexually molested her. The child’s mother was also infected with the sexually transmitted disease.

    Today, the jury will hear evidence of how Har*grove has behaved since he’s been in jail awaiting trial. If the prosecution finishes in time, the defense could begin their presentation today.

    In addition to several family members, the defense expects to call a prison management specialist to testify.

    The jury will determine Hargrove’s punishment for the murders. The judge will sentence him for the additional crimes of kidnapping, feticide, burglary and three counts of possession of a knife during the commission of a crime.

    http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/cr...l?v=1395693063
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    Adrian Hargrove handed death sentence for 2008 Augusta triple slayings

    At the conclusion of a 38-day trial Tuesday, a jury determined that Adrian Hargrove should die for killing three people.

    The Richmond County Superior Court jury deliberated just short of an hour before deciding that death was the appropriate sentence for each of the three victims.

    As the judge polled jurors to ensure that was their decision, Hargrove dropped his head and hunched his shoulders.

    The same jury had convicted Hargrove, 36, on Friday for the brutal Feb. 9, 2008, slayings of 18-year-old Allyson Pederson and her parents, Sharon and Andrew Hartley.

    Pederson, who was pregnant, and the Hartleys were repeatedly stabbed with a butcher knife and beaten by Hargrove.

    This morning, Judge James G. Blanchard Jr., who presided over the trial, will impose sentences for the other crimes Hargrove was convicted of – kidnapping, feticide, burglary and three counts of possession of a knife during the commission of a crime.

    “Your verdict should speak for the community,” District Attorney Ashley Wright told the jury in her closing statement Tuesday. Hargrove attacked unarmed, unsuspecting innocent victims, she argued. “What trumps, what stops evil?”

    Pederson was cut and stabbed 21 times and suffered at least four blows in an abandoned trailer on Horseshoe Road. Hargrove dumped her body at the Lock and Dam where he set her on fire.

    Sharon Hartley was cut and stabbed 12 times before dying on the floor of her own bedroom where her body was found splattered with her husband’s blood. Andrew Hartley was cut and stabbed 20 times and hit 17 times with an ax handle. Hargrove gouged his face while Hartley was still alive in his Bennock Mill Road Home, Wright said.

    In a span of just a few hours, Hargrove killed not once but three times, Wright said. Afterward, he lied to sheriff’s detectives, tried to get witnesses to obstruct justice, was caught in jail with a shank and planned to escape the first chance he got, she said.

    The magnitude of his crimes deserved the ultimate punishment, she argued.

    But Newell Hamilton of the Georgia Capital Defender office asked the jury for mercy for Hargrove, to sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    “This was a horrible crime and we have never said it was not,” Hamilton told the jury. But another death would not make it better, he said.

    Life in prison without any chance of ever being free again is punishment, Hamilton argued. To live every day with someone else controlling your every movement was not a life anyone would choose. And, Hamilton added, there was no evidence that Hargrove would be a danger to any staff or other inmate.

    For the jury to return a verdict of death, each member had to vote for that punishment. A single vote of life in prison would spare Hargrove, Hamilton said. He implored each juror to use his own moral values and not be afraid to be the lone vote for life.

    http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/cr...riple-slayings
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    Hearing Monday for Augusta man on death row

    By Sandy Hodson
    The Augusta Chronicle

    Ten years after an Augusta man murdered a pregnant teen and her parents – crimes for which a Richmond County jury voted unanimously to sentence him to death – a hearing will be held Monday to begin the first stage of the appellate process.

    Adrian Hargrove, 41, was convicted of beating and fatally stabbing 18-year-old Allyson Pederson and her mother and stepfather, Sharon and Andrew Hartley, on Feb. 9, 2008. According to trial testimony, Pederson was the girlfriend of Hargrove’s best friend but Hargrove barely knew her parents.

    That morning, Hargrove tricked Pederson into leaving her home with him. He took her to a trash-filled, abandoned trailer on Horseshoe Road and stabbed and cut her 21 times with a butcher knife. Then Hargrove returned to her Bennock Mill Road home and stabbed her mother at least 12 times before he attacked her stepfather, stabbing him 21 times and hitting him with an ax handle 17 times, breaking both weapons, as then-District Attorney Ashley Wright told the jury in closing arguments.

    The Hartleys were found in their Bennock Mill Road home. Pederson’s body was found set on fire at the Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam.

    “This is no scuffle, this is not a fight (as Hargrove told doctors who examined him), it’s a slaughter,” said Wright, who is now a Superior Court judge.

    After Hargrove was sentenced to death in March 2014, he wrote in a letter read in court saying that he didn’t know why he killed Pederson and the Hartleys.

    Hargrove’s appellate attorneys have filed a motion for a new trial alleging that a series of errors from jury selection to jury instruction rendered his trial unfair. His attorneys have also served subpoenas on a staff member of the Georgia Supreme Court that has set off a legal battle with the state’s attorney general.

    Hargrove’s attorneys are seeking case information gathered by the state Supreme Court’s death penalty law assistant regarding every murder case that ends in a death sentence or life in prison. The court uses the information to determine whether a death sentence under appeal is disproportionate when compared to other cases.

    The attorney general contends the information is judicial deliberative privilege. The subpoenas also should be quashed because they are burdensome, unreasonable and irrelevant to the hearing on Hargrove’s motion for a new trial, according to the motion to quash.

    Hargrove’s attorneys countered that the records aren’t privileged because they aren’t the product of confidential communications within the framing and researching of the court’s decisions. Hargrove wants the information in order to challenge his conviction and sentence on the grounds that the sentence is not proportional to other murder cases that resulted in death sentences in Georgia.

    Judge James G. Blanchard Jr., who presided over Hargrove’s trial, granted the state’s request to quash the subpoenas.

    https://www.augustachronicle.com/new...n-on-death-row
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    Augusta man on death row for triple murder has post-conviction hearing

    By Sandy Hodson
    The Augusta Chronicle

    Five years ago this month, a jury convicted Adrian Hargrove of committing a triple homicide and voted unanimously to sentence him to death. He was back in Richmond County Superior Court on Tuesday for his first post-conviction hearing.

    At trial, Hargrove’s defense attorney sought a verdict that would have taken the option of a death sentence off the table. A verdict of guilty but mentally ill or intellectually disabled would have done that.

    Hargove’s appellate attorneys Tuesday presented an expert in psychology, specifically intellectual disability. Marlyne Israelian testified about the complexity of determining the disability when a person is in the mild range, as opposed to moderate or profound.

    The legal standard in Georgia death penalty cases requires the defense to prove such a disability beyond a reasonable doubt. Israelian testified it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to meet that standard in cases of mild intellectual disability.

    On Feb. 9, 2008, according to trial testimony, Hargrove lured 18-year-old Allyson Pederson from her home. Pederson, who was pregnant, was stabbed at least 21 times with a butcher knife in an abandoned trailer on Horseshoe Road. Hargrove then took her to the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam and set her body on fire.

    Hargrove, now 41, also returned to the Bennock Mill Road home where Pederson lived with her parents, Sharon and Andrew Hartley. Both were repeatedly stabbed. Andrew Hartley was also beaten with an ax handle.

    One of the trial witnesses was a Richmond County Sheriff Office crime scene investigator. He described the crime scenes and provided blood stain analysis testimony as the jury viewed photographs of them.

    Hargrove’s hearing will continue Wednesday with an expert in forensic science who teaches university crime scene courses, which includes blood stain analysis.

    Hargrove’s appellate attorneys are attacking his conviction and sentence, contending he was unfairly convicted because, among other alleged mistakes, evidence with withheld from his attorneys until trial.

    https://www.augustachronicle.com/new...iction-hearing
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    ACLU requests new trial for Augusta man on death row, alleges Black jurors were excluded

    By Alexandra Koch
    The Augusta Chronicle

    The ACLU of Georgia filed court documents last week requesting a new trial for an Augusta man, currently on death row, who was convicted of murdering a pregnant teen and her parents in 2008.

    Adrian Hargrove, 46, was convicted of beating and stabbing 18-year-old Allyson Pederson and her parents, Sharon and Andrew Hartley, on Feb. 9, 2008, according to previous reporting.

    Pederson, the girlfriend of Hargrove's best friend, was stabbed and cut 21 times with a butcher knife before being set on fire in a dumpster, according to previous reporting. After killing Pederson, Hargrove went to her parent's home, stabbed her mother at least 12 times, stabbed her stepfather 21 times and hit him with an ax handle 17 times, breaking both weapons.

    In Hargrove's 2014 trial, the state used 13 of its 14 allotted peremptory strikes to remove Black jurors, according to the documents filed by ACLU of Georgia. The state admitted it struck one juror based on his membership in the NAACP.

    The documents allege another Black juror was excluded because of a sight disability, which had already been accommodated by the court.

    The ACLU said the state's actions occurred "against a backdrop of a history of Richmond County government officers discriminating against Black community members trying to exercise their rights," according to the documents.

    Further, the ACLU said not only are Hargrove's rights at stake, but also the rights of the Black and disabled members of the Augusta community.

    The ACLU asked the court to grant Hargrove's motion for a new trial, due to the state's "blatant violation of [previous case law], the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Americans with Disabilities Act," according to the documents.

    Allegations of a history of discrimination in Augusta

    The ACLU alleges the history of government discrimination in Richmond County supports the inference of intentional discrimination.

    Hargrove's counsel submitted a detailed pleading setting out an "extensive and unmistakable pattern of racial discrimination in this county going back for decade," according to the documents.

    The pattern the ACLU referred to included Richmond County's history of discrimination against Black voters, resistance to school integration, police shootings and misconduct leading up to the 1970 Augusta riot and lack of diversity in law enforcement and the judiciary.

    "The prosecutor’s discriminatory strikes against Black jurors were not simply the isolated acts of a rogue and racist individual who just happened to gain access to the levers of state power, nor does Mr. Hargrove bear the burden of proving that DA Wright is a racist individual," the ACLU wrote in court documents. "Such actions rather represent symptoms of a broader and more systemic disease."

    https://www.augustachronicle.com/sto...a/71440009007/
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