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In a case where a woman went to jail for 59 days instead of testifying against her friends, Fonta Whipple and Jashawn Clark each were sent to prison Wednesday for 18 years.



 
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That was the sentence imposed by Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Ethna Cooper which apparently didn't bother Whipple or Clark. They were smiling so much during the sentencing the judge asked Clark what he thought was so funny.

A jury convicted the pair last month of attempted murder, felonious assault and being felons with a gun after they shot Derryan "D Money" Holland in a June 22, 2009, incident in Lockland.

"They are domestic terrorists and stone-cold killers who have no remorse," Assistant Prosecutor Rick Gibson told the judge.

Holland is lucky he lived, Gibson said, considering how badly he was injured. Whipple and Clark boasted after the shooting, Gibson said, that someone should call an ambulance and then corrected themselves to say a coroner was needed instead.

"This was intended to be an execution of Derryan Holland because of an ongoing feud," Gibson said.

Whipple and Clark were in a car driven by Ashlee King. When the men saw Holland in Lockland, they asked her to pull over. They got out and shot Holland.

Authorities don't believe King knew what was going to happen or was involved but she refused the judge's order to answer questions about it - until she spent 59 days.

Her testimony helped convict Whipple, 27, and Clark, 26, who both already have been to prison twice.

They won't go to prison for this conviction - at least not yet.

Both are set to go to trial next week, also before Cooper, on murder and other charges stemming from a March 18, 2009, running gun battle down Interstate 75 that ended with the deaths of Scott Neblett and Keith Cobb. A conviction in that case could send the pair to prison for life.