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April 10, 2006
Taylor Housed
A crying Winchester judge sentenced Rheubin Taylor II on Thursday to 12 months of house arrest and three years of probation for committing voluntary manslaughter in the Bessie Smith Strut shooting that killed Tory Hardy in 2003.
“He has accepted responsibility from the first moment,” Taylor’s attorney Stewart Jenkins told Judge Buddy Perry of Winchester. “He came forward and said 'This is what happened and this is what I did.’”
That was little comfort to Hardy’s mother, Terry Lynn Nicholson, who said in a statement that Taylor had received special treatment from the courts – his father is a city attorney – and not spent a day in jail. “It has been sickening watching you be free as though everything is normal,” she said, according to Chattanoogan.com reports.
After the verdict, however, Nicholson prayed with members of the Taylor family. “I have prayed about this,” she told television reporters, “and it's too heavy, and if I continue to carry it I’m going to stay a victim. I just want everybody to know that I’m OK with this. My grandson is going to be raised up OK. This was God's will and I’m happy with that.”
Perry broke down crying before delivering his sentence, saying that he had recently lost a child himself.
News Update | By mesh | 03:20 PM
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