Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Patricia  •  Filed under: News

Bodybuilder Craig Titus is seeking to knock off about four years from his prison sentence for murder.

If he can’t get that, he’s asking the court to throw out his guilty plea and allow him to go to trial. His attorney, Marc Saggese, claims District Judge Jackie Glass said that Titus would be eligible for parole after serving 17 years in prison for killing his personal assistant, Melissa James.

Instead, Glass sentenced Titus to 21 years in prison during a sentencing hearing on Aug. 22. “In defendant Titus’ mind, the fact that he would receive seventeen years was written in stone,” Saggese wrote in a court document. “Judge Glass had made that assurance to Counsel as a matter of fact.”

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