CHARDON, Ohio (AP) - A northeast Ohio man has withdrawn his guilty plea in the 2010 slaying of a 17-year-old boy struck with the door of a passing car and then beaten with a pipe.
Twenty-six-year-old Dustin Plottke had pleaded guilty to aggravated murder Jan. 22 in the killing of Daniel Swan, who died of head injuries weeks after being found lying along a road in Geauga (jee-AW’-guh) County, east of Cleveland.
But The (Willoughby) News-Herald (https://bit.ly/MuGCZp ) reports that Plottke filed a request this week to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming that he is really innocent.
A prosecutor said he is going to oppose the request. Plottke’s sentencing was still set for Friday.
Plottke’s co-defendant, 23-year-old Matthew Boone, was sentenced to 15 years to life in December.
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Information from: The News-Herald, https://www.news-herald.com/jrc-html/index/index_p33.html
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