A defendant testified that pressure from his attorney and family led him to accept a plea deal for a murder he did not commit during a hearing before DC Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz on Dec. 12.
Erin Sheffey, 30, was originally charged with second-degree murder while armed, two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, and three counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence for his alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kiwyon Maddox on Aug. 15, 2021 on the 2000 block of 16th Street, SE.
Sheffey accepted an agreement from prosecutors on March 28 that required him to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed in exchange for prosecutors dismissing all other charges. As part of the deal, parties agreed to a sentence range of seven-and-a-half-to-15 years of imprisonment that would run concurrent with Sheffey’s sentence in his US District Court case…