A Miami-Dade judge rejected a proposed plea deal Friday for a former assistant principal accused of killing a teacher who was his lifelong friend, sending the case toward trial following emotional statements from the victim’s family.
Ernest Joseph Roberts, a former assistant principal at Miami Norland Senior High School, faces a first-degree murder charge in the May 2019 death of Kameela Russell, a Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher.
Under the proposed agreement, Roberts would have served 30 years in prison followed by five years of probation…