By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Court Reporter
pbailey@tribunmedia.net
A MAN on bail for murder was sentenced to six months in prison after he admitted to not obeying his bail conditions for the fourth time since being charged.
Magistrate Raquel Whyms charged Keith Stubbs, 27, with 10 counts of violating bail conditions.
He was granted $20,000 bail in 2020 for his alleged involvement in the death of 58-year-old Craig Trevor Smith in 2018.
While on release, Stubbs failed to charge his electronic monitoring device (EMD) and breached his residential curfew on ten separate occasions between April 24 and June 12.
Stubbs was previously granted a conditional discharge for two of his prior bail violation charges and was fined $300 for the charge that preceded this one.
Although he pleaded guilty to the charges, he claimed the EMD was malfunctioning that he requested a device upgrade from Metro Security.
The prosecutor noted that the security company has no record of the defendant filing a complaint for his most recent EMD issues.
When the magistrate told Stubbs he had failed to take his bail conditions seriously, he cried for mercy. He said he hid his EMD to keep his job and had to take care of his infant child.
Stubbs was sentenced to six months in prison. His murder trial begins in September.
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