(AP) – A man whose original conviction for a Joplin murder was
overturned by the Missouri Supreme Court accepted a plea deal that will send him
to prison for 20 years.
Twenty-two-year-old Daniel Hartman entered Alford pleas Monday to
second-degree murder and armed criminal action for his role in the death of
23-year-old Jacob Wages of Joplin.
The Joplin Globe reports Hartman was originally given two life sentences and
a 15-year term after being convicted in 2014. The state Supreme Court overturned
the convictions last year, saying a defense witness should not have testified.
Hartman, a member of a Hoover Street Crips gang in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was 17
when Wages was killed in a home-invasion robbery in July 2012.
Four co-defendants have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and related
charges.
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