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| Ex-inmate gets 15 years in prison stabbing |
| By The Post and Courier |
| Published: 04/19/2004 |
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A Kingstree, South Carolina, man, who was released from prison April 1, was sent back to prison last Thursday for 15 years after Dorchester County jurors convicted him of stabbing another prisoner in June 2001. After deliberating for two days, jurors found Timothy Player guilty of assault and battery with intent to kill for stabbing Patrick Fulton, 37, at Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville. Before sentencing, Circuit Judge Diane Goodstein asked Player why he stabbed Fulton. Player did not answer nor did he apologize. The judge could have sentenced Player to a maximum of 20 years in prison. Fulton, a religious man who was freed from prison more than a year ago, asked Goodstein to show Player mercy, said Senior Assistant Solicitor Harrison Bell. Fulton was in prison for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, Bell said. Both inmates knew each other when they lived in Kingstree and were working as trustees in the prison's maximum-security wing when Player stabbed Fulton in the chest, said Assistant Solicitor Benjy Lafond. The weapon punctured Fulton's lung and a pulmonary artery, according to testimony during the trial. At the time of the stabbing, they were collecting dishes from the morning breakfast. Fulton spent six months in the prison infirmary after a month's stay in a Charleston hospital, Lafond said. Fulton testified that the weapon appeared to be an ice pick. A weapon was not found. |
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