AKRON (AP) — An attorney representing a man indicted on aggravated murder charges in an Ohio fire that killed seven people in May and in a second fire that killed two people on the same street last year says the man maintains he’s innocent.
Attorney Joseph Gorman says he and his co-counsel look forward to reviewing the evidence and defending 58-year-old Stanley Ford in court.
A grand jury on Thursday indicted Ford in the May 15 fire in Akron that killed two adults and five children. The grand jury also indicted him on new charges in an April 2016 fire that killed a man and a woman. Prosecutors say Ford could receive the death penalty if convicted.
Gorman says he and his co-counsel “don’t believe the death penalty is right in any situation.”