A convicted teenage killer's mother agreed to a plea deal for tampering with evidence in Tristyn Bailey's murder in an upscale Florida community and sentenced on Friday, three days before her trial was scheduled to begin.
Crystal Smith, 37, pleaded no contest to tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, and will spend 30 days in jail followed by five years of probation for washing blood out of her son Aiden Fucci's jeans after he killed Bailey on Mother's Day 2021.
"What the defendant did was not protecting her child. She was assisting him in avoiding responsibility for an extraordinarily vicious and merciless crime," State Attorney R.J. Larizza said in a statement.
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Crystal Smith, 37, pleaded no contest to tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, and will spend 30 days in jail followed by five years of probation for washing blood out of her son Aiden Fucci's jeans after he killed Bailey on Mother's Day 2021.
"What the defendant did was not protecting her child. She was assisting him in avoiding responsibility for an extraordinarily vicious and merciless crime," State Attorney R.J. Larizza said in a statement.
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