Jury to begin deliberating in boiled water trial

Tolbert said that he believes the incident happened because they were gay. “It was just a little hot water on them”.

Shortly after, Marquez spoke about the effects of the burns, saying: “The pain doesn’t let you sleep”.

The 48-year-old faced up to 80 years in prison, but was sentenced to 40, after being found guilty on all charges.

Here’s to hoping this news will come as some consolation to Gooden and Tolbert as they continue to heal.

Prosecutors say Foster’s son, Anthony Gooden, and his boyfriend, Marquez Tolbert, were sleeping in bed at the apartment in College Park when Blackwell poured boiled water on them in February.

Blackwell’s attorney, Monique Walker, presented a paper-thin argument that acknowledged that Blackwell poured boiling water on the pair and deserves retribution, but she is asking jurors to consider it reckless conduct. Georgia, one of the five states in America, does not have a state hate crime law. Both men suffered severe burns beeding multiple surgeries and skin grafts. He said Blackwell told them, ” ‘Get out of my house with all that gay -,’ ” using an expletive.

Gooden’s mother had been dating Blackwell around three years at the time of the attack. It’s about old-school culture, old-school thinking’. At the time of his arrest, Blackwell had said he couldn’t stand the sight of Gooden and Tolbert together. “And it’s a felonious act”, Willis said. The FBI said in March that it had opened a hate crime investigation, but spokesman Kevin Rowson said Wednesday that the agency is not commenting on that probe.

Gooden spent almost a month in the hospital, including two weeks in a medically induced coma.

Blackwell allegedly admitted that he carried out the attack because he didn’t like the idea of the two men sleeping together, and later claimed the two were having sex when he poured the water on them. They’ll be all right; it was just a little hot water’.

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