Man gets maximum sentence

The sentences add up to 25 years to life.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Craig Franklin, who received maximum prison sentences Friday on conspiracy to commit murder and aggravated robbery convictions, says he wasn't the mastermind of a store robbery in which an accomplice was shot and killed.
"I didn't make nobody do anything they didn't want to do," Franklin, 18, of Glenwood Avenue, told Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
A Mahoning County jury found Franklin guilty April 20 of conspiracy to aggravated robbery and conspiracy to murder, but innocent of firearm violations on both counts, meaning he wasn't guilty of having a gun while either crime was committed.
Teenager died
Eric Farmer, 15, of St. Louis Avenue, died May 22, a day after he, Franklin and other juvenile accomplices went to rob Atway's Market on Lexington Avenue, on the city's North Side. Store owner Atway Atway shot at robbers in self-defense. Prosecutors said Franklin knew the store and organized the robbery, so he was responsible for Farmer's death.
Judge Durkin sentenced Franklin to 10 years for the robbery, to be served consecutively with a mandatory 15 years-to-life sentence for murder.
Franklin's attorney, Ronald D. Yarwood, had asked Judge Durkin for a minimum three-year sentence on the robbery conviction, saying Franklin's punishment was not proportionate with that of his accomplices.
Judge Durkin agreed with assistant prosecutor Gina Arnaut, who said that if Franklin hadn't tried to take advantage of store owners who had befriended him, Farmer wouldn't have died and the Atway family wouldn't have lost their business of 40 years.