GUILTY FL - Amari Copeland, 5 wks, beaten to death, Jacksonville, 20 Dec 2008

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JonPaul Anthony Harms has a pre-trial hearing on 06/24/2010. Charges against the mother, Phoebe Copeland, appear to have been dropped. However, it interests me that she has previous convictions for child neglect, was living in a car with 5 childen, yet I see no mention of CPS. You would think they would have been keeping tabs on them given the prior neglect charges.
 
Jacksonville man pleads guilty in baby’s death in exchange for 30-year sentence

http://jacksonville.com/news/2016-11-01/jacksonville-man-pleads-guilty-baby-s-death-exchange-30-year-sentence

Thirty years in prison is the punishment for a Jacksonville man who beat his girlfriend’s 5-week-old son to death in 2008 at their Jacksonville home, according to the State Attorney’s Office..

Jonpaul Anthony Harms, 28, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Monday in Amari Copeland’s death. In December 2008 Harms struck the baby in the head in order to stop him from crying, authorities said.

As part of a plea deal, prosecutors allowed Harms to plead guilty and agreed to the 30-year sentence. Harms was originally charged with first-degree murder and faced a potential death sentence.
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It took almost eight years to resolve Harms’ case because he fired his public defenders and made several other motions that took up a lot of court time. Harms eventually agreed to allow the public defender’s office to represent him again.
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