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Mt. Lebanon man gets 10 to 20 years after plea in 2002 death of Andrew Jones
A Mt. Lebanon man granted a retrial for his role in a 2002 kidnapping and killing pleaded guilty Monday to third-degree murder.
Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Manning sentenced Jared Henkel, 33, to 10 to 20 years in prison for his plea, with credit for the time he's served since April of 2002. Following his release, he'll serve 10 years on probation.
A jury had convicted Henkel along with Jared Lischner and Craig Elias for the 2002 killing of Andrew Jones, 19, of the West End, whose body was found at the bottom of the Ohio River, his hands bound with duct tape and a 50-pound barbell chained to his thighs. Henkel and Lischner were convicted of second-degree murder and Elias was convicted of first-degree murder. All three men had been sentenced to life in prison.
A federal judge granted Henkel a new trial in September, ruling that his previous trial lawyer, now deceased, gave him ineffective legal advice when he didn't prepare Henkel to testify or put him on the stand. Lischner won his own appeal in 2012 and struck a similar plea with prosecutors. Elias' appeal is pending.
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