GUILTY AL - Sherry Blansit, 45, beaten to death at her Mentone home, 29 May 2015

A University of Alabama in Birmingham student charged with beating his mother to death in May waived his preliminary hearing on Monday, sending the case on to a grand jury...

Blansit, a biology student at UAB, was on a break from school when he called sheriff's deputies to the house, claiming that he and his mother had both been attacked.

Sherry Blansit, who was beaten beyond recognition, was... a bank employee who suffered from multiple sclerosis...

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In his arraignment Tuesday, Tyler Blansit pleaded not guilty by mental disease or defect in the killing of Sherry Blansit. Tyler Blansit, 23, has already been indicted by a DeKalb County grand jury.

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Tyler Blansit was sentenced to twenty five years behind bars, where he will serve at least fifteen of those years for the brutal beating of his mother, Sherry Ann, in 2015.

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After reading aloud the plea, Judge Bell said, “I find that you have voluntarily entered and intelligently entered your plea of guilty, and I judge you guilty of murder. Do you have anything to say before your sentence is pronounced?”

“Just, I’m sorry,” said Blansit.

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After the conclusion of the sentencing, District Attorney Mike O’Dell said of the guilty plea: “We believe this is a very fair resolution to this cause. It’s obviously a very serious and tragic one. After extensive conversations with both sides of the family, we’ve got unusual family dynamics going on here. We do believe that this sentence and this resolution is fair and just. And I believe the family members on both sides are willing to accept this as being such. We’re satisfied, and I believe justice has been done again.”

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