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Thursday, July 24, 2008 --- 42 days ago http://www.charlotteobserver.com/204/story/725106.html
| Lawyers for the jailed son of North Carolina State's basketball coach say he was scared and made a homemade knife to protect himself, but the sheriff said the weapon was against rules. Attorneys for Sidney Lowe II said in a statement their client had been threatened by other inmates and called an informer, the News & Record of Greensboro reported Thursday. Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes said a knife made from a plastic spoon and pieces of metal were found in Lowe's cell. Barnes said Lowe pleaded guilty to a jail disciplinary charge and that another infraction could lead to more punishment. If Lowe had used the knife, he could have faced a criminal charge. The judge said during sentencing that if Lowe committed another crime he faced a possible 11-year sentence that had been suspended. A judge had sentenced the 23-year-old Lowe to serve 15 months on the minimum security county prison farm for guilty pleas in a March 2007 robbery and shooting in Greensboro. Barnes said he sent the well-known to the jail under his authority to assign prisoners. The knife was found Monday during a random cell search. Sidney Lowe's lawyers said their client felt threatened in jail. "Sid was scared out of his mind and used some scraps of plastic and metal, which he found in his cell, to try to make something with which to defend himself in case of an attack," attorneys Locke Clifford and Joe Cheshire said in a joint statement. "He did not try to hide ... |
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