COOK A St. Louis County judge recently sentenced two men both with lengthy criminal histories following their convictions for a March 2020 burglary in rural Cook. One was …
Jerome Dionte Spann, the 33-year-old man accused in a 2018 Hibbing homicide, waived his right to a jury trial during a hearing last week, leaving his fate in the hands of a single judge in the northeastern Minnesota district.
Spann and his public defender, Elizabeth Ann Polling, filed the jury trial waiver Friday during an omnibus hearing that came about four months after their attempt to toss a grand jury indictment on a first-degree murder charge was denied by Sixth Judicial District Judge Rachel C. Sullivan.
Itâs the latest step in what is shaping up to be the final months in the investigation and prosecution of the Christmas Day killing of 34-year-old Jeryel Octavious McBeth.