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Man convicted of 2nd degree domestic assault |
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INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (AP) -- A jury convicted a man of second-degree domestic assault Saturday for shoving a cell phone down his girlfriend's throat.
Prosecutors said Marlon Brando Gill, 25, of Kansas City, forced the
cell phone into Melinda Abell's mouth during a quarrel in December 2005.
Gill denied the charge, claiming that Abel had tried to swallow the
phone to prevent him from finding out whom she had been calling.
Abell, 25, of Blue Springs was rushed to a hospital, where doctors removed the phone. Doctors said she nearly choked to death.
"I think he thought I'd been talking to other guys," Abell wrote in a
statement to police after the incident. "If I didn't want him to see my
phone, I would have just thrown it out the window and busted it."
It was Gill's second trial since his arrest more than a year ago.
Jurors in July were unable to reach a verdict on a first-degree
domestic assault charge, which carries a maximum sentence of life in
prison.
Jurors could not agree on a sentence for Gill, which means that
decision will be left up to a judge. The assault charge carries a
sentence of up to seven years in prison. |
