NOVEMBER TERM OF UPSON SUPERIOR COURT ENDED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, WITH JUDGE FLETCHER SAMS DISMISSING JURORS. JURY SELECTION WAS UNDERWAY WEDNESDAY MORNING IN AN ARMED ROBBERY CASE WHEN THE DEFENDANT, DEMARCO LOWERY, 18, DECIDED TO ENTER A GUILTY PLEA TO ARMED ROBBERY AT COUNTRY CORNER GROCERY ON WEST MAIN STREET AND COMMUNITY SUPERETTE ON JEFF DAVIS ROAD, ROBBERIES IN NOVEMBER OF 2009. ON A BLIND PLEA WITHOUT A STATE RECOMMENDATION, JUDGE SAMS SENTENCED LOWERY TO 30 YEARS, 20 YEARS TO SERVE. A CO-DEFENDANT JOSEPH FERDIE BORDELON, 27, ENTERED A PLEA LAST WEEK AND WAS SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS. ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY BEN COKER SAID LOWERY ALSO HAD WEAPONS CHARGES, DURING THE ROBBERY AT COMMUNITY SUPERETTE, HE FIRED A PISTOL IN THE AIR. THERE WAS ONE JURY TRIAL DURING THE WEEK, MONDAY , MILTON THOMAS WAS CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON.
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