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Now 26, He'll Emerge At 46

Underwood Facing

20 Years In Slaying

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

OPD Officers Lindsay Rumenapp and Edmund Donley had a grim New Year's Day, investigating a slaying. (www.AllOTSEGO.com photo)

COOPERSTOWN – Joshua Underwood, 26, will reenter society at age 46 after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter yesterday in a death in the wee hours of New Year’s Day in Oneonta.

Joshua Underwood

The plea in the death of Mark Morrison, 52, was entered before county Judge Brian Burns as the deadline – yesterday – for two plea options was running out, District Attorney John Muehl said today.

Muehl said he offered Underwood and his lawyer, Public Defender Bruce Maxson, two options:  second-degree murder, 15 years to life, or first-degree manslaughter at a firm 20 years.   Underwood chose the “determinant” sentence, the D.A. said.

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