WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A Worcester judge has rejected an inmate’s offer to plead guilty to first-degree murder in the 2014 fatal beating of a fellow prisoner at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.
The Telegram & Gazette reports (https://bit.ly/1RgvwW2 ) Judge Shannon Frison said she wasn’t satisfied with Michael Freeman pleading to all of the elements of first-degree murder.
Freeman has been charged in the August 2014 death of William Sires at the maximum-security prison. Two other inmates are charged in the killing.
Assistant District Attorney Timothy Westerman argued that the killing of Sires was a premeditated attack planned by Freeman and two other inmates.
Freeman has disputed this claim.
Freeman is already serving a life sentence without parole for a 1995 murder.
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Information from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass.), https://www.telegram.com
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