Prisoner Wesley Griffith, who was sentenced last week to five months in jail for attacking his accuser in court, was on Tuesday sentenced to 60 months in prison at the end of a trial in which the court found him guilty of robbing the man.
The charge against Griffith was that on June 26, 2013, at North Sophia, he robbed Derrick Halley of a BlackBerry cell phone, a Nokia cell phone, a house key, a motorcycle key and a quantity of cash, all totalling $277,000. It was also alleged that at the same time, immediately before or after, he used personal violence to Halley.
Griffith had pleaded not guilty to the charge at his first appearance on
