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Jury Spares Life of Killer Former Cop

He gets 57 years to life for murdering his pregnant girlfriend

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 27, 2008 3:28 PM CST

(Newser) – An Ohio judge sentenced Bobby Lee Cutts to life in prison with possible parole in 57 years for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend after the jury recommended against the death penalty, CNN reports. Judge Charles Brown added years to the jury's recommended sentence—life in prison with parole in 30 years—after hearing statements from the victim’s family.

"I don't believe that you are sorry for what you did. I believe that you are sorry that you got caught up in all your lies,” said Whitney Davis, sister of Jessie, the victim. Cutts, 30, a former police officer in Canton, had asked the jury yesterday to spare his life. His girlfriend, 26, was nine months' pregnant.

Bobby Cutts Jr., center, and his attorney's Carolyn K. Ranke, left, and Fernando Mack watch the jury leave the courtroom during the sentencing phase in Cutts' murder trial, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts, convicted of the murder of girlfriend Jessie Davis and her unborn child last summer,...
Bobby Cutts Jr., center, and his attorney's Carolyn K. Ranke, left, and Fernando Mack watch the jury leave the courtroom during the sentencing phase in Cutts' murder trial, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, in...   (Associated Press)
Former Canton police officer Bobby Cutts Jr., left, along with his attorney, Fernando Mack, listens as the judge reads the jury sentencing recommendations, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts was convicted of killing Jessie Davis and their unborn daughter last summer. The jury has recommended life in prison...
Former Canton police officer Bobby Cutts Jr., left, along with his attorney, Fernando Mack, listens as the judge reads the jury sentencing recommendations, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts...   (Associated Press)
Cindy Tonkovich, left, Jessie Davis's aunt, and Stephanie Porter, Jessie's cousin, listen to the jury's recommendations in the trial of Bobby Cutts Jr., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts was convicted of killing Jessie Davis and their unborn daughter last summer. The jury has recommended life in prison...
Cindy Tonkovich, left, Jessie Davis's aunt, and Stephanie Porter, Jessie's cousin, listen to the jury's recommendations in the trial of Bobby Cutts Jr., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts...   (Associated Press)
Bobby Cutts Jr. listens to assistant county prosecutor Dennis Barr during final arguments in the sentencing phase of the trial of Cutts, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Convicted of the murder of pregnant girlfriend Jessie Davis and her unborn child last summer, Cutts faces a possible death sentence....
Bobby Cutts Jr. listens to assistant county prosecutor Dennis Barr during final arguments in the sentencing phase of the trial of Cutts, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, in Canton, Ohio. Convicted of the murder...   (Associated Press)
Bobby Cutts Jr. cries during testimony by his mother, Renee Jones at his sentencing hearing Monday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts faces a possible death penalty in the murder of Jessie Davis and her unborn child last summer. Defense attorney Fernando Mack listens at right. (AP Photo/Pool, Bob...
Bobby Cutts Jr. cries during testimony by his mother, Renee Jones at his sentencing hearing Monday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts faces a possible death penalty in the murder of Jessie Davis and...   (Associated Press)
Assistant Stark County Prosecutor Dennis Barr questions a defense witness during the sentencing hearing for Bobby Cutts Jr. Monday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts was convicted Feb. 15 of aggravated murder in the death of the nearly full-term fetus and of murder in the death of Jessie Davis....
Assistant Stark County Prosecutor Dennis Barr questions a defense witness during the sentencing hearing for Bobby Cutts Jr. Monday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts was convicted Feb. 15 of aggravated...   (Associated Press)
Bobby Cutts Jr., second from right, listens as assistant Stark County Prosecutor Chryssa Hartnett, left, makes her opening statement in a sentencing hearing for Cutts Monday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Canton, Ohio. Cutts' attorneys Myron Watson, second from left, and Fernando Mack, right, watch. (AP Photo/Pool, Bob Rossiter)
Bobby Cutts Jr., second from right, listens as assistant Stark County Prosecutor Chryssa Hartnett, left, makes her opening statement in a sentencing hearing for Cutts Monday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Canton,...   (Associated Press)
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