BATON ROUGE – District Attorney Hillar Moore said that a plea deal the prosecutors entered with a man convicted of killing a father in his own home in 2021 was made because he was almost certain jurors wouldn’t have convicted him.
Nicholas Mcquirter was found guilty in the killing of Dezmon Hamilton, whose family members expressed outrage that Mcquirter’s charges were reduced to negligent homicide from the second-degree murder charge he was arrested on.
“The issue is that we run the risk of going to trial where we know with almost a certainty that we’re going to lose the trial,” Moore said…