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Man gets plea agreement in murder case

June 19, 2009|Bob Flynn

The Winchester man accused of murdering Kimberly A. Hooten on Meadow Street last September, entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge in Clark Circuit Court yesterday.

Judge William Clouse accepted Anthony M. Brown's guilty plea to the amended charges of first-degree manslaughter and tampering with physical evidence.

When the plea agreement was read, it drew reactions of dismay from several of Hooten's family members.

Clouse recommended Brown serve a 10-year sentence for the manslaughter charge and five years for the tampering charge.

Brown was arrested at his home at 1018 W. Lexington Ave. a few days after Hooten's body was found lying in Meadow Street near the Generations Center.

While in Brown's home, officers recovered a pocket knife, some of Hooten's property and some items of her clothing.

Brown told investigators at the time that he had an altercation with Hooten the day she died.

He will be sentenced July 9 in Circuit Court.

- In another murder case, Jessilyn C. Robinson's hearing was continued to July 9.

Robinson faces murder charges in the death of her daughter, 4-year-old Faith Raenne Robinson, who died as the result of head injuries in May 2008.

Robinson told police the child fell in the bathtub and hit her head. But doctors in Lexington said the child's injuries were not consistent with a fall, but were

more consistent with being shaken violently.

Robinson was not arrested until September 2008 after the Sheriff's Office received the final autopsy report from the state medical examiner's office.

- The case of Jeffrey and Mary Jane Bull, who are accused of of first-degree criminal abuse, was also continued to July 9.

The Bulls are accused of the abuse of Mary Jane's father, James E. Carson, who police found in the couple's home tied to a recliner with straps.

Police said Carson, who suffers from dementia, was not able to walk because his feet were so swollen, he had not been bathed in more than a week, and he had open wounds on both arms and hands. Carson later died after he was found strapped to a recliner.

Police had gone to the home to serve a mental health evaluation order when they discovered Carson.

Bob Flynn/bflynn@winchestersun.com

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