A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that killed a prominent Cincinnati attorney.Brandon Marksberry pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated vehicular homicide and failing to stop after an accident as part of a plea deal.Former defense attorney Steven R. Adams was killed on Nov. 1 when a car hit him during a bike ride along Eastern Avenue.Investigators say that Marksberry was behind the wheel."The victim was alive when the emergency responders got there. If the incident was reported promptly you never know what the outcome may have been,” Hamilton County Assistant Prosecutor Dave Wood said.Adams' colleagues said he'd built a practice from scratch and focused on criminal and DUI law.He'd coined phrases such as, "Choose to Refuse."Adams had also made a run for state office years ago, and worked in the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office as an assistant prosecutor in the past."He didn't do anything halfway, whether it was being a dad, being an attorney, being a four-time Ironman world championship competitor," fellow Attorney Tad Brittingham said.
A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that killed a prominent Cincinnati attorney.
Brandon Marksberry pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated vehicular homicide and failing to stop after an accident as part of a plea deal.
Former defense attorney Steven R. Adams was killed on Nov. 1 when a car hit him during a bike ride along Eastern Avenue.
Investigators say that Marksberry was behind the wheel.
"The victim was alive when the emergency responders got there. If the incident was reported promptly you never know what the outcome may have been,” Hamilton County Assistant Prosecutor Dave Wood said.
Adams' colleagues said he'd built a practice from scratch and focused on criminal and DUI law.
He'd coined phrases such as, "Choose to Refuse."
Adams had also made a run for state office years ago, and worked in the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office as an assistant prosecutor in the past.
"He didn't do anything halfway, whether it was being a dad, being an attorney, being a four-time Ironman world championship competitor," fellow Attorney Tad Brittingham said.
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