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But sentence changed to one 15-to-life term
Published on Thursday, Aug 14, 2008
Beacon Journal staff report
An Akron man who fatally stabbed a neighbor over a parking dispute has lost an appeal of his murder conviction.
But the 9th District Court of Appeals did modify the sentence for Robert J. Hudson. Appeals judges cited an error by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Judith Hunter.
The appeal argued that Hudson, 73, acted in self-defense when he killed Neal D. Shafer, 56, at the Miller Hotel, where both were living, after a daylong quarrel in February 2007. The appeals judges rejected that argument.
Hudson, who is imprisoned at the Pickaway Correctional Institution, was sentenced by Hunter to two concurrent terms of 15 years to life for the murder. But a person cannot be sentenced on two counts of murder for a single killing, the appeals judges said.
''We find that [Hunter] plainly erred by sentencing Hudson on two murder charges,'' the ruling said, and the judges modified the sentence to a single term of 15 years to life.
Hudson had not raised the issue in his appeal.
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