Thursday, August 30, 2012
George Huguely was convicted in February for second-degree murder in Yeardley Love's death.
Lawyers for George Huguely V asked for leniency in his sentencing Thursday, and they got a little. Huguely was sentenced Thursday to 23 years in prison for the 2010 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Cockeysville native Yeardley Love, according to WUSA. The Chevy Chase native was also given three years supervised probation (to follow the prison sentence) and is serving one year for larceny concurrently, the television station reports. His defense, however, plans to appeal, WJLA reports. Huguely was convicted in February of second-degree murder and grand larceny after a Charlottesville jury found that he beat Love and left her for dead in her off-campus apartment. The jury found Huguely stole Love's laptop. The jury recommended that Huguely spend…
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Charlottesville clears out more than satellite trucks following the verdict in George Huguely's murder trial.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—As he eyed the array of satellite trucks, wires and cameras on 4th Street in downtown Charlottesville on Wednesday afternoon, George Jones spotted a reporter and decided to give him a piece of his mind. "It's a sin and a shame," said Jones, a 51-year-old Charlottesville resident, about the crime that brought such media attention to his small town. A Charlottesville jury recommended a 26-year sentence for George Huguely V, the 24-year-old Chevy Chase native, shortly after convicting him of second-degree murder and grand larceny in the death of ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love of Cockeysville in her Charlottesville apartment. Both were lacrosse players at the University of Virginia. In a statement released shortly after the …
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Media descends on the small Virginia town as George Huguely trial enters its final days.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—A.C. Anderson, a Charlottesville, VA deputy sheriff, spent Thursday morning cheerfully ushering media members into a viewing room at the Levy Opera House, where a live feed of the George Huguely murder trial was being broadcast on a flat panel TV hanging on a wall. Huguely, a 24-year-old former lacrosse player at the University of Virginia, stands accused of the May 2010 death of his ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love, a Cockeysville native. "It's been quite busy around here," Anderson said. "This is one of the biggest things to happen in Charlottesville." Since the trial began last Monday, he has grown to enjoy the increased activity in the small town of about 45,000 people. The Daily Progress, a local newspaper, reports that…
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