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This week, a former student at Harvard University was sent to prison for three years for aiding in the killing of a Cambridge man during a drug robbery in 2009. Brittany Smith, a 24-year old woman, said that she hid the gun that was used in the shooting of Justin Cosby and then helped the three men responsible escape the city to get back to New York.
Cosby, a 21-year old, was shot when Smith's boyfriend, Jabrai Jordan Copney, and two other men, tried to rob him. Smith pleaded guilty to several charges, including accessory after the fact and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors then agreed to drop the charge that would have made Smith an accessory after the fact to murder.
Copney was convicted of first-degree murder and given a life sentence. Prosecutors say that the man pretended to be a Harvard student who wanted to buy marijuana from Cosby. That's when Copney and his friends lured Cosby to the basement of the dorm, where Copney shot him when he refused to hand over the drugs.
Smith is being sent to prison because after the murder took place, she hid the 9mm semiautomatic handgun used in the killing. She then hailed a cab that took the men to the bus station. Smith is also accused of buying the bus tickets for the three men who were involved in the homicide.
“All she had to do was tell the truth. All she had to do was accept responsibility,” said Daniel Bennett, the Assistant District Attorney.
“She hasn’t accepted responsibility at all at any time in this case.”
Justin Cosby’s mother, Denise Cosby, said that Smith was “the nucleus of this whole catastrophe." She asked the judge to give her a harsh sentence.
“In my opinion, you are just as responsible for my son’s death as the shooter. The only thing you didn’t do was pull the trigger,” she said during the trial.
Smith was nearly done with her time at Harvard University, literally weeks away from graduating. As a result of her participation in the crime, she was kicked out of school and not allowed to graduate.
3 comments:
This has got to be the dumbest heffa in America. Are you serious? Weeks away from graduating from one the most perstigious university in the country. Some of us only dream of the opportunity to matriculate at an ivy league school. But this dizzy broad gets hooked up with what seems like some trashy good-for-nothing hoodlums and have managed to let them take her into the gutter with them. Now everything she's worked for is gone. Going from prestige to fighting for her life on the cell block.
WOULD YOU BE AS QUICK TO JUDGEMENT IF THIS WAS YOUR DAUGHTER? YOUTH IS OFTEN IMPETUOUS, BEGUILED AND MISLEAD! MOST SURVIVE AND GO ON TO LIVE LIFE, AS PRODUCTIVE TAX PAYING
ADULTS,YOU'D NEVER KNOW SOME OF THE INSANITY MOST FOLKS HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN! UNLESS OF COURSE, YOUR YOUNG BLACK, FEMALE AND ATTENDED A IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY!!IT'S THE IVY LEAGUE TO YOU! IT WAS JUST SCHOOL TO HER! THE PRICE OF BRILLIANCE CAN PROVE TO BE VERY COSTLY, PRAY FOR HER SHE'S BLACK, FEMALE AND NEEDS A SECOND CHANCE!! LOVE RESPECT, FUND'I
Holy shit..I went to middle school with this girl. Even though I really didn't keep in contact with her since, seeing she wound up in Harvard made me proud of her. Then she pulls this stunt. I'm not only shocked but disappointed that a young intelligent black woman threw away her future for a murderer. She knew better.
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