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DA: Maldonado will face death penalty at trial (June 25, 2010)
Maldonado enters not guilty plea (Aug. 9, 2010)
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Event raises $4,200 in memory of slain landscaper Timothy Clements (Aug. 29, 2009)
Bond denied for 16-year-old in Clements murder case (Aug. 28, 2009)
Minor charged as adult in murder of Conyers man (July 24, 2009)
Four arrested in connection with Clements' murder (June 16, 2009)
Body found in creek identified as missing Conyers man (June 14, 2009)
The death penalty case of Pablo Fernando Maldonado, charged as the ringleader in the murder of Conyers landscaper Timothy Clements, has been postponed until the spring.
The case against 24-year-old Pablo Fernando Maldonado was originally scheduled to be heard in the courtroom of Newton County Superior Court Judge Horace Johnson Jr. beginning Feb. 25. It has been continued until April 23.
Maldonado is accused of acting as ringleader in the 2009 murder of Conyers landscaper Timothy Clements. He, along with three others - Christian Caldwell, 19; Brittney Beasley, 20; and Katria McClain, 18 - are accused of kidnapping Clements, robbing him, killing him and dumping his wrapped body in Snapping Shoals Creek. They reportedly stole his truck and fled to Alabama. According to McClain, who took a plea deal last year, the group planned out the murder the night before.
A request in October from Maldonado's attorneys - who are also from the Capital Defender's Office - for a change of venue was denied.
Bludgeoning murder case on schedule
Rodney Renia Young's death penalty case is still scheduled for next month in Newton County Superior Court.
Prospective jurors have been sent questionnaires for the Young trial, which is still scheduled to begin Feb. 6. Young has been in the Newton County Jail since 2008 after being charged in the bludgeoning death of his ex-fiancée's son, 28-year-old Gary Lamar Jones.
According to the prosecution, Jones, a correctional officer, came home from attending church at Springfield Baptist and was attacked. His mother found him when she came home from work around 11:30 p.m., bound to a chair, stabbed in the neck and bludgeoned with a hammer.
Young has pleaded not guilty and will be defended by attorneys from the Georgia Capital Defender's Office. His case will be heard in the courtroom of Judge Samuel Ozburn. Requests from Young's attorneys to continue the case until March were denied last year.
