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David JURCIC no contest pleas to
third-degree murder,
kidnapping, rape, sexual assault 1984
Oct. 17, 1984 McDonald PA Record-Outlook:
A Cecil Township man has been sentenced to six to 20 years in prison after
pleading no contest to a charge of third-degree murder in the 1983 shooting
death of his adoptive mother.
David JURCIC, 21, also entered pleas of no contest Wednesday to charges that
he kidnapped, raped and sexually assaulted his 20-year-old girlfriend.
JURCIC told Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Bernard L. MCGINLEY that a
"mistake was made" and that the shooting of his mother, Elizabeth
JURCIC, had been accidental.
Defense attorney Patrick J. THOMASSEY said his client pleaded no contest
rather than guilty because he could not admit to killing his mother
intentionally.
According to a summary of evidence presented by Assistant
District Attorney James WILSON, JURCIC and his mother went to his girl
friend's Bridgeville home on October 24, 1983, to return the couples' 14
month-old daughter. The child had been visiting Mrs. JURCIC.
During a preliminary hearing, JURCIC's girlfriend, who was not
identified, testified that JURCIC pulled out a gun and told her he had to talk
to her. The couple had broken up three months earlier, she said.
JURCIC said that as the two struggled, Mrs. JURCIC tried to pull her away. She
said that JURCIC beat his mother in the face, and then shot her in the head.
The woman said he then abducted her and took her to an isolated spot in
Oakdale, where he raped her. She told police that he eventually broke down,
cried and let her go.
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