Robbery case court documents (1985)

John Wes­ley Ewell was con­victed of two rob­ber­ies in the 1980s, mak­ing him eli­gible later for a 25-years-to-life pris­on sen­tence un­der the state’s 1994 three-strikes law. His first rob­bery con­vic­tion oc­curred in 1985. Ewell and an­oth­er man were ac­cused of rob­bing a fe­male jog­ger who had been check­ing her bank bal­ance at an ATM. Ewell pleaded guilty to rob­bery and was sen­tenced to 270 days in jail.