ELKTON — A man accused of punching a woman in the face several times and choking her at an Elkton residence in May — during a loud domestic dispute that had been mistaken as the sound of a gunshot — is facing up to 10 years in prison after accepting a plea deal, according to Cecil County Circuit Court records.
The defendant — Kevin Edward Grant, 63 — entered an Alford plea to second-degree assault on Monday as part of a plea agreement reached by Assistant State’s Attorney Gavin Patashnick and Grant’s lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Gary Brown, court records show.
In an Alford plea, the defendant maintains his innocence while acknowledging that the state possesses enough evidence to convict him at trial…