Ohio Highway Sniper Agrees to Plead Guilty ; Jury Had Deadlocked On Insanity Question

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › August 09, 2005

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - The mentally ill man who admitted committing a series of highway shootings that terrorized central Ohio has agreed to drop his insanity defense and plead guilty, a judge said Monday.

Charles McCoy Jr.'s plea would avoid a second trial. Jurors could not decide earlier this year whether McCoy was legally insane during the shootings, which happened over five months in 2003 and 2004. One woman was killed.

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Ohio Highway Sniper Agrees to Plead Guilty ; Jury Had Deadlocked On Insanity Question

Barring a last-minute change of heart by McCoy or prosecutors, McCoy will ent...

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