BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – A man charged with manslaughter in connection with a multi-vehicle crash that killed three people six years ago learned his fate Wednesday afternoon.
In lieu of moving forward with a jury trial, Aris Jamal Ransom-Powell, 29, took a plea deal and will spend the next seven years in prison.
Judge Benjamin Robertson, who presides over Bexar County’s 226th Criminal District Court, told the state and the defense he accepted the plea deal because prosecutors are not able to track down a key witness: Ransom-Powell’s sister…