TOLEDO, Ohio — A man convicted of the 2022 shooting death of a 29-year-old man in south Toledo has been granted a new trial.
The decision was announced Thursday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court following an appeal process.
Cedrick Belmon, 20, was found guilty in 2023 of murder, felonious assault, discharge of a firearm, having weapons under disability and tampering with evidence in the shooting death of Dominick Barnett. Belmon, who was 17 years old at the time of the shooting, was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison…