Abigail Kemp – the 25-year-old woman who recently pleaded guilty to carrying out six armed robberies of jewelry stores in five different states across the Southeast – testified against her three co-conspirators in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence, the Panama City News Herald reports.
According to the article, she described the details of the spree to the jurors and told them: “[The co-conspirators] made me feel good about myself — like I was part of something. I didn’t like what I was doing, but I liked the way they made me feel.”
The defense attorneys of the co-conspirators, however, painted a different picture of Kemp, arguing that she “repeatedly committed crimes before becoming a robber, and was a drug abuser and a scorned lover with a significant incentive to lie on the stand and implicate others in her crime.”
The article details the following exchange that took place between Kemp and a defense attorney:
DA: “What were you looking at before your agreement with the government?”
Kemp: “Life in prison.”
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DA: “And that is vastly different from what you hope to receive with your cooperation.”
Kemp: “Correct.”
Read more at the Panama City News Herald
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