Man Sentenced For 2013 Atmore Manslaughter

March 10, 2016

An Atmore man has been sentenced for to prison for the 2013 death in Atmore.

Kendrell “Dick” McCants, 31, was charged with murder but pleaded to a lesser charge of manslaughter in the death of  Marvin Norman. On Sunday morning, April 28, 2013, Atmore Police responded to a reported unconscious person in the 80 block of Brooks Lane. As officers arrived, they observed a man later identified as Norman on the ground in a yard.  Police said he had injuries consistent with an assault. Norman was transported by Atmore Ambulance to Atmore Community Hospital. He was later airlifted by LifeFlight to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola where he passed away a short time later.

McCants was given a suspended sentence of 20 years in state prison and was ordered to serve three years in state prison followed by five year on supervised probation.

After being identified as the suspect, McCants was arrested in March 2014 by the U.S. Marshals Regional Task Force in Escambia County, FL. According to jail records, McCants is a former resident of Pensacola.

Comments

9 Responses to “Man Sentenced For 2013 Atmore Manslaughter”

  1. Bill McPhillips on March 12th, 2016 9:51 pm

    Our prison systems r overcrowded? Can’t we put 20 in a 10 x 10 call with one bed and let the “CRIMINALS” work it out? Just wondering.

  2. David Huie Green on March 10th, 2016 9:40 pm

    REGARDING:
    “my dad is serving a LIFE sentence because someone got on stand and said he sold them pills a life sentence”

    Not judging or anything, but did they testify to this under oath because they were lying or because he actually did what they swore he did?

    David for distinctions

  3. billy on March 10th, 2016 7:13 pm

    Our justice system encourages crime

  4. Dennis HE Wiggins on March 10th, 2016 3:49 pm

    Everyone is railing on the judges and District Attorneys AGAIN. These men do what the laws allow. So instead of going after them, go after your legislators and tell them to change the laws. Sure, we’d like to see everyone who takes the life of another – whether it be with malice or by negligence – go to jail forever or face the death penalty, but if the law does not allow it, then it will never be. And even then, I can assure you that the SCOTUS will not let it stand. But contact your legislators and tell them how you feel, anyway. Our Judges and DAs pretty much have their hands tied.

  5. Anna on March 10th, 2016 2:03 pm

    This is ABSOLUTELY ridiculous, there is no justice for the family of the victim. This criminal will be on the streets again in probably less than 3yrs, kill again, and get even a lesser sentence!!! The jails and prisons already overcrowded, if the family don’t push the system to do what’s right, then the justice system could care less and as you see here, that’s exactly what happened!!!!!

  6. LB on March 10th, 2016 8:38 am

    This makes me sick… my dad is serving a LIFE sentence because someone got on stand and said he sold them pills a life sentence and this killer gets 3 yrs I just don’t understand how our judges and the distant attorney can lay theirs heads down and sleep at night knowing how the do some people.. but in the end GOD is the ultimate Judge

  7. Billy D on March 10th, 2016 6:54 am

    you have GOT to be kidding me! To allow someone to plea down a murder charge should be a crime in itself. ANY judge that would allow this should lose his seat and the attorneys should be suspended. I can understand some cases being pled down but MURDER? This guy laughed all the way to the pen knowing he’ll be a free man shortly.

  8. Breezy on March 10th, 2016 5:28 am

    Seriously? Last year a fellow I know went to prison for 3 years on a drug manufacturing charge. Not sure the justice system is very fair at all.

  9. Richie on March 10th, 2016 3:14 am

    This is where plea deals fail. Kill someone get a 20 years suspended sentence and only have to serve 3 years in prison, justice is truly blind.

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