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Fulbright pleads guilty, sentenced to 30 year
By Bill Hankins
The Paris News
Published October 22, 2009
An 18-year-old Paris man has pleaded guilty to robbing a convenience store on Loop 286 and beating the clerk with a shotgun in April 2008.
Sixth District Court Judge Eric Clifford sentenced Jeremy Fulbright to 30 years in prison Wednesday after the plea bargain.
Fulbright’s guilty plea came as a panel of potential Lamar County jurors waited in the halls of the Lamar County Courthouse
to serve on the scheduled trial.
In a plea bargain with prosecutors, Fulbright agreed to go to prison for 30 years. He faced a possible life sentence for the first-degree felony.
Fulbright was accused of twice robbing a convenience store in the 2800 block of Northeast Loop 286 in April 2008.
In the second robbery, Fulbright was accused of beating the clerk with a gun. The deadly weapon used mandates Fulbright serve a minimum of half his sentence before he is eligible for parole.
“Paris Police did an outstanding job investigating this case as initially no suspects could be identified,” said Gary Young, Lamar county and district attorney. “Their determined efforts led them to identify two of the three suspects involved in these robberies. One remains unidentified.”
The other suspect identified and charged was a 16-year-old juvenile, who pleaded guilty in 2008 in juvenile court proceedings and was sentenced to a determinate 10 years in prison.
First Assistant County and District Attorney Bill Harris said the juvenile will serve up to his 19th birthday in Texas Youth Commission facilities and be transferred to serve the remainder of his time in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Video surveillance captured in the store was “shocking,” Harris said. “It clearly depicted this clerk being horribly beaten with the stock of a shotgun.”
Harris said referring to Fulbright’s juvenile record and the robberies: “There was an escalating pattern of violence. In the first robbery he simply displayed a weapon. In the second, he used it to beat the clerk.”
Fulbright was represented by Paris defense attorney Wes Tidwell.
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