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By
Alisha Budhwani [former]
- May 5, 2022
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The defendant in a 2016 homicide case accepted a plea deal three months before he was scheduled to go on trial.
Clinton Womack was indicted on 26 counts including first-degree murder while armed in the shooting of 45-year-old Terry Crutchfield on Dec. 6, 2016, on the 1500 block of Olive Street, NE. He was scheduled to go on trial in August.
During the most recent hearing for this case on May 4, defense attorney Steven Kiersh said his client would like to accept a plea offer from the prosecution.
Womack, 32, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence in exchange for the prosecution dismissing the rest of his indictment charges. Parties agreed to recommend concurrent eight-year prison sentences for both charges. He would receive credit for the nearly five-and-a-half years he has served at DC Jail since his arrest.
The defendant was scheduled to go to trial once in 2018, twice in 2019 and once again in 2020, D.C. Witness reported.
DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt accepted the plea and scheduled Womack to be sentenced on July 8.