Complicity to murder suspect Dekorian Daniel entered a guilty plea to lesser offenses in Christian Circuit Court, while a trial date was set for the more serious charge.
Daniel appeared alongside defense attorney Olivia Adams and Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling, who read the terms of the agreement that comes with a recommend one-year sentence for the charges of receiving stolen property, trafficking in marijuana and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Daniel entered his guilty plea to those charges and Adams requested a trial date be set for after the trial for his co-defendant—Cortez Hairston Jr.—is held in April.
A trial date was set for April 19 on the complicity to murder charge in connection with the October, 2021 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Adrian Acree on Sharpe Street. A grand jury in April of last year indicted Hairston for murder, while Daniel and 24-year old Jaila Sherrod for complicity to murder.
Investigation by Hopkinsville police determined Sherrod allegedly drove Acree to the location where Hairston would gun him down. Sherrod and Daniel are also accused of helping in the planning of the murder.