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James Webb was convicted Friday of second-degree murder in the August 2008 stabbing death of Cydric Jones, 36, during a drug transaction.<\/p>\nJames Webb was convicted Friday of second-degree murder in the August 2008 stabbing death of Cydric Jones, 36, during a drug transaction.<\/p>\n
The eight women and four men seated before Circuit Judge John Phillips deliberated about six hours across two days before finding Webb guilty of a lesser crime than the first-degree murder charge prosecutors had filed against him.<\/p>\n
Webb, 25, of Round Lake, will face a prison sentence of four to 20 years when he returns to face Phillips for sentencing March 5. <\/span><\/p>\n Jones, of Waukegan, was stabbed once in the heart after he punched Webb as the two argued over a drug debt owed to Jones by one of Webb’s co-workers.<\/p>\n Assistant state’s attorneys Steven Derue and James Newman said the evidence showed Webb intended to kill Jones when he carried a steak knife from his house to the meeting with Jones in Round Lake Beach.<\/p>\n Webb also told his cousin he intended to stab Jones, the prosecutors said, and bragged about doing so afterward.<\/p>\n But defense attorneys Kevin Malia and Eric Rinehart told jurors Webb was terrified of Jones, who he had seen threaten his co-worker over the money, and only went to see him because his need for cocaine was so great.<\/p>\n Jones had also shown Webb that he had a 9 mm pistol at a prior meeting, the attorneys said, and Webb could not be sure Jones did not have the gun on the night they met.<\/p>\n The jurors apparently accepted the defense contention that Webb stabbed Jones because he thought it was necessary to protect himself, but that the belief was unreasonable.<\/p>\n Webb will be held without bond in the Lake County jail until the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n Had he been convicted of first-degree murder, Webb would have faced a prison sentence of 20 to 60 years.<\/p>\n Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n James Webb was convicted Friday of second-degree murder in the August 2008 stabbing death of Cydric Jones, 36, during a drug transaction. The eight women and four men seated before Circuit Judge John Phillips deliberated about six hours across two days before finding Webb guilty of a lesser crime than the first-degree murder charge prosecutors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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