Friday, October 10, 2008 By Tommy Witherspoon Tribune-Herald staff writer A 23-year-old Chilton man was sentenced to 80 years in prison Thursday in a home-invasion robbery of a 73-year-old Marlin man. Judge Robert Stem of Marlin’s 82nd State District Court sentenced Joe Louis Landrum after a jury convicted him Wednesday of aggravated robbery. “The jury did a great job, and his sentence is just a direct reflection of the type of protection we try to afford the elderly, children and those who cannot protect themselves,” said Falls County District Attorney Jody Gilliam. Landrum and his girlfriend, Ashley Nicole Collins, 19, broke into the elderly man’s home in February and knocked him down, according to trial testimony. They cut his phone cord, tied him up and stuffed a sock in his mouth, securing it by tying a piece of material...
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