Man resentenced for 2011 murder

YOUNGSTOWN

A man was resentenced Tuesday by Judge Lou A. D’Apolito in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for a Sept. 22, 2011 murder.

Donovan Miller, 29, was given a sentence of 33 years to life for the murder of 22-year-old Quest Waggoner in his Inverness Avenue home on the South Side.

Miller was convicted in December of 2012 and sentenced to 36 years to life but he appealed his sentence to the 7th District Court of Appeals, which ruled he had to be resentenced because there was no explanation why one of the charges he was sentenced for, tampering with evidence, was made consecutive at the original sentencing.

At the resentencing, Judge D’Apolito made the tampering with evidence conviction concurrent instead of consecutive. Miller was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on the murder and an additional three years on a firearm specification. With the tampering charge running concurrently, that makes his sentence 33 years to life.