Plea Agreement In Falling Death
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A 19-year-old Vermont man accused
of providing beer for a party where a teenager fell to his death
last year has reached a plea agreement with a deferred sentence.
Justin Cross, who now attends Harding College in Searcy, pleaded
no contest to charges of petite larceny and furnishing or selling
alcohol to a minor.
His plea was accepted last week at Vermont District Court. He
will be on a probation that includes drug and alcohol screening.
Cross is among five teenagers who were charged in December in
connection with the death of 17-year-old Steven L. McInerney of
Rockingham, Vermont, last summer.
McInerney fell off a cliff, onto a rocky outcropping and into a
river at the Brockway Mills Gorge in Rockingham, Vermont. His death
was ruled accidental.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
