Judge sentences man a third time for 2001 crimes

Judge sentences man a third time for 2001 crimes

YOUNGSTOWN — Brandon Moore appeared a third time for sentencing before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum for his role in the kidnapping, robbery and gang rape of a 21-year-old Boardman woman at gunpoint in August 2001.

Today, Moore, 22, drew the same 112-year prison term he received in the previous resentencing by the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judge. His lawyer, Jennifer McLaughlin, said Moore wants to appeal today’s sentencing.

The judge originally had sentenced Moore to 141 years in prison in 2002 after he was convicted of committing the crimes against the woman on Detroit Avenue on the city’s South Side and of a separate armed robbery of a couple in Youngstown earlier on the same evening

Moore was only 15 when he committed the crimes, but he was tried as an adult by a jury and convicted.

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