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Jesse Matthew to appear in court for plea agreement hearing
By T. Rees Shapiro March 2
Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., the Charlottesville-area man who is charged with the disappearances and deaths of two young women in the college town, is expected to enter guilty pleas in both cases when he appears in Albemarle County court later today.
Matthew, 33, had faced the possibility of the death penalty for the abduction and murder of Hannah Graham, an 18-year-old Fairfax County resident who was a sophomore at the University of Virginia when she went missing in the fall of 2014.
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The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. The terms of the plea deal have not been released.
In a brief interview Tuesday, Tracci said that the plea agreement had been in the works for some time. He said he had met personally with the families of both victims to discuss possible resolutions of the case.
By T. Rees Shapiro March 2
Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., the Charlottesville-area man who is charged with the disappearances and deaths of two young women in the college town, is expected to enter guilty pleas in both cases when he appears in Albemarle County court later today.
Matthew, 33, had faced the possibility of the death penalty for the abduction and murder of Hannah Graham, an 18-year-old Fairfax County resident who was a sophomore at the University of Virginia when she went missing in the fall of 2014.
[...]
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. The terms of the plea deal have not been released.
In a brief interview Tuesday, Tracci said that the plea agreement had been in the works for some time. He said he had met personally with the families of both victims to discuss possible resolutions of the case.