Sentencing has been delayed until next year for a man convicted of killing two women in Harrisonburg and transporting their bodies in a shopping cart. WMRA’s Randi B. Hagi reports.
In January, a jury convicted Anthony Eugene Robinson of murdering Allene “Beth” Redmon and Tonita Lorice Smith in a motel room in Harrisonburg in 2021. The jury recommended he be given four life sentences plus 10 years and a $400,000 fine. Judge Bruce D. Albertson will ultimately decide what sentence to impose.
Robinson was initially scheduled to be sentenced in September, but the appointment of a new attorney – Public Defender Abigail Thibeault – prompted the delay of that hearing to December 23rd, in part because she plans to argue that the judge could choose to suspend part of a life sentence, even in an aggravated murder case. On Tuesday, the sentencing hearing was rescheduled again, for May 22nd…