Friday, June 25, 1999
Assailants claim ringleader received lesser jail sentence
BY DAN HORN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A judge sentenced four men to prison Thursday for attacking two rivals in Clifton with bats, table legs, broomsticks, rocks and knives.
But the defendants' lawyers complained that the group's accused ringleader got less time in jail than anyone.
The defendants — all from the Clifton area — received sentences from 18 months to four years for their role in the attack last August on Virgil Riley and Hugh Jones.
Another man, Ricky Wilson, cooperated with police and received a six-month sentence.
At a hearing Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, defense attorneys told Judge Melba Marsh the case was a “miscarriage of justice” because Mr. Wilson may have inflict ed more harm than the others.
Prosecutors say a gang of young men calling themselves the “Clifton Coalition” chased Mr. Riley and Mr. Jones to their car on Emming Street and began beating them.
They say at least one of the men entered the car and stabbed both 18-year-old victims several times. Mr. Riley required emergency surgery to repair life-threatening injuries.
Mr. Wilson testified against the other men at their trial last month.
But in a taped telephone call, which was played at the trial, Mr. Wilson said he stabbed the two men. “I was the one that did it,” he said, according to a transcript. “And now that I'm gone, ain't a damn thing you can do about it.”
Prosecutors noted, however, that Mr. Wilson was recently released from prison and now faces nearly 10 years for violating his parole.
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