John Wesley Ewell

    Robbery case court records (1988)

    John Wes­ley Ewell’s second strike con­vic­tion oc­curred in 1989, when a jury found him guilty of rob­bery. He and two oth­ers were charged with rob­bing a mo­tor­ist in an al­ley. Ewell al­legedly told the vic­tim: “Don’t move if you don’t want to be hurt,” be­fore bind­ing the man’s hands and tak­ing his wal­let, watch and truck. He was sen­tenced to eight years in pris­on.

    — Jack Leonard and Richard Winton
    Published: Dec. 20, 2010
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