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Probation over for suspect in February stabbing death
March 1, 2021 GMT
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) A Mississippi man arrested in connection with a fatal February stabbing now faces 17 years in prison for his conviction in a 2018 knife assault.
Seventeen years of the earlier sentence for 54-year-old Maurice Agnew of Baldwyn had been suspended, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
But after Agnew was arrested on a manslaughter charge, a prosecutor told the newspaper he has begun the process to have Agnew serve the suspended sentence.
Agnew faces the possibility of added years in prison if he is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of 56-year-old Thelbert Randall Cowley,
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