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BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) - A jury Thursday convicted a man of murder for shooting a teenage neighbor who walked on his obsessively maintained lawn.
The jury deliberated less than four hours before finding Charles Martin, 67, guilty of murder. Martin was tried on a charge of aggravated murder, but jurors convicted him on the lesser count of murder because they could not agree the killing was planned.
The defense didn't dispute that Martin shot 15-year-old Larry Mugrage Jr. after he stepped on the lawn Martin meticulously cared for, mowing it as many as five times a week.
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