CANTON: When their talks began, jurors almost immediately dismissed a death sentence for Bobby Cutts Jr.

Instead, one member said, they began to focus their deliberations on a life sentence.

And while they ended up giving the 30-year-old former Canton patrolman a chance at parole someday, a Stark County judge essentially closed that door.

It will be 2064 when Cutts — if he lives that long — can ask for his release from prison.

Judge Charles E. Brown Jr.'s sentence for killing Jessie Marie Davis and her unborn child: life in prison with parole possible after 57 years.

It wasn't the sentence Davis' mother wanted. Through her faith in God, Patty Porter said she has been able to forgive her daughter's former lover.

Although she doesn't believe Cutts' account of how her daughter died, she asked the judge to also give Cutts a chance for freedom down the road.

''I want you to know today that I do forgive you and I know that's only through (God) that I'm able to do that. I pray you find him and you find that forgiveness that nobody else in this room can give you,'' she told her daughter's killer.

Wednesday's sentencing ended an eight-month odyssey for Porter, who
first reported her daughter missing June 15 and then helped inspire a massive search party viewed by a national TV audience.

She was the only one standing in a courtroom last June when Cutts made his first appearance after his arrest. And she found herself the last standing family member in front of him Wednesday when given the chance to speak at his sentencing hearing.

''I never in my heart wanted to believe you hurt her, but in my soul, I knew you had,'' Porter said in court. ''One day, you will tell the truth.''

Appeal planned

Cutts' attorneys said the guilty verdicts will be appealed. In a news conference after the sentencing, the attorneys cited several appeal avenues they intend to pursue, including Brown's decision to bar jurors from considering a lesser charge of manslaughter for what they consider an accidental death.

''There will be a number of issues in our appeal,'' defense attorney Carolyn Kaye Ranke said.

Two weeks ago, jurors found Cutts guilty of murder for the death of Davis, 26, and aggravated murder for the death of her unborn child, who she planned to name Chloe.



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well he got a chance of parol in 57 years.. he'll be 87 by then..