Posted at 12:29 p.m., Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Former sailor gets 100 days for manslaughter
Advertiser Staff
A former Pearl Harbor sailor was sentenced to 100 days in jail for manslaughter for recklessly killing a neighbor during a confrontation at the Century Park Plaza apartments in Pearl City in 2004.Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto also placed Kendall Edmonds, 24, on 10 years probation for the death of Michael Gillum.
Edmonds, from Alabama, will get credit for 54 days he already spent behind bars in the case before he was released on $25,000 bail. Edmonds must serve another 46 days.
City prosecutors asked for a maximum 20-year term, arguing that Edmonds punched Gillum, then straddled him when he was on the floor and hit him four or five more times.
But Edmonds' lawyer said the death was caused by the first blow and his client never intended to kill Gillum. Deputy Public Defender William Bento also said Gillum provoked the confrontation.
Sakamoto said Gillum used "incendiary racial epitaphs" to enrage Edmonds and the death — caused by a ruptured blood vessel at the base of the brain — could not have been foreseen.
