Mindie Mock Stanifer admits to involuntary manslaughter, kidnapping and obstructing justice.
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Mindie Mock Stanifer looks over the plea agreement to sign it with her attorney John Bosco as GCSO Detective Tom Lombardo looks on. (GEAUGA COUNTY MAPLE LEAF PHOTO) |
The woman who prosecutors said drove with Chad South to Burton Township in 2006 to murder Daniel Ott pleaded guilty Monday morning to her role in the alleged murder-for-hire plot.
Mindie Mock Stanifer, 37, withdrew an earlier not guilty plea and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony; kidnapping, a second-degree felony; and two counts of obstruction of justice, third-degree felonies.
Her jury trial was scheduled to begin Monday.
“You admit that you committed the acts that make up and comprise those offenses?” Geauga County Common Pleas Judge David Fuhry asked Stanifer.
“Yes, sir,” she answered.
“I will accept the plea of guilt to those counts, make a finding of guilt based upon the plea and convict Mindie Mock Stanifer of those charges, subject to sentencing, which the court will defer to a later time,” Fuhry said, ordering preparation of a pre-sentence investigation report.
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