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Ewing murder suspects due in court
Published November 27, 2009
The three Monroe men facing the death penalty in the murder of a 65-year-old woman during a home invasion in Loganville May 21 will be arraigned next week.
According to Walton County District Attorney Ken Wynne, Cory Butler, 29, John Blackwell Jr., 19 and Barry Marquez Partee, 18, will appear in the Walton County Magistrate Court at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 2. The proceedings were continued last month after it was announced the DA intended to seek the death penalty to allow the men to seek additional counsel. Blackwell had to retain additional counsel and Butler and Partee had to have public defenders appointed. Under Georgia law, defendants facing the death penalty require the representation of at least two attorneys, either hired or appointed by the state.
The three men face charges of malice murder, three counts of felony murder, aggravated battery, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of false imprisonment, armed robbery, burglary and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime. Butler faces an additional charge of a convicted felony being in possession of a weapon.
It is alleged the three went to the house of Epsie and C.F. Ewing on the pretext of wanting to buy C.F.’s truck the day of the attack. Butler had allegedly been there the week before with another woman to get money from C.F., reportedly for a child that resulted from a relationship between C.F. and the woman. Police, however, have said they found no evidence a child ever existed although C.F. did admit to the relationship.
It is alleged when Butler and the other two returned the day of the attack, they forced C.F. into the house at gunpoint, beating both he and his wife. C.F.’s injuries were not as severe but his wife was life-flighted to Atlanta Medical Center where she died the following month.
All three suspects were identified and in custody within a week of the alleged attack.
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