His murder conviction carries a penalty from 45-65 years. West was also convicted of a firearms enhancement, which could add up to 20 more years.
Prosecutors said West fatally shot him after Pewitt went to pull the woman, his child’s mother, from the apartment after West had supplied her drugs for several hours and forced her to have sex as payment.Defense lawyers Kerry Connor and Sonya Scott-Dix said the state’s case were various pieces of witness testimony that did not line up. It was mixed with sloppy police work including large holes in what forensics were collected from the scene, Connor said.
The woman, Pewitt and another man were at a drug house nearby in Gary on Sept. 7, when West arrived, charges state. They all briefly went outside West’s apartment.
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