Plea deal might be back in '15 Decatur killing case

DECATUR – A plea bargain for one of the http://www.officialsteelersprosale.com/daimion-stafford-jerseys-c-1_39.html men charged with the robbery and murder of a Decatur woman might be on again.
The lawyer representing Shaitan L. Cook Jr., 18, appeared in a Macon County Circuit Court pre-trial hearing Wednesday and asked for more time to discuss a potential plea deal. Cook is being held in the Macon County Jail.
Defense attorney Philip Tibbs told Judge Thomas E. Griffith that a previous potential deal – that would have seen Cook serve 20 years – was still on the table from the Macon County State's Attorney's Office. In a court hearing Aug. 14, Cook appeared to reject the deal and had said in court he had tried to do his own deal involving pleading to a charge of armed robbery “although I didn't commit murder or robbery,” he told the court.
But without the plea deal, prosecutors had warned he could be looking at a maximum sentence of 100 years if convicted. Tibbs said Wednesday that if Cook decides to change his mind the earlier “offer is still a valid offer to my client.”
Griffith agreed to set the case back for another pretrial hearing Nov. 20.
Cook has so far pleaded not guilty to the robbery http://www.authenticsteelerssales.com/hines-ward-jersey-c-1_19.html and murder of Cesley Taylor, 21, on Sept. 7, 2015. She died from multiple gunshot wounds in her apartment and a roommate, Britney Wilson, was also shot multiple times but survived.