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Dallas News
August 1, 2015
Deric Madison managed to avoid a capital murder conviction for the May 2014 slaying of a Dallas insurance salesman.
But he will still serve a life sentence for killing 33-year-old Josh Tubbleville outside an Oak Lawn gas station, a Dallas County jury decided Monday.
Madison, 25, was originally charged with capital murder because prosecutors said he robbed Tubbleville before shooting him. Instead, the same jury that would later sentence him decided that Madison — who had testifed during the trial that he was defending himself — was guilty of the lesser offense of murder.
The verdict left prosecutors and the defense to battle over Madison’s sentence, which could have been as short as five years in prison.
Defense attorney Chris Mulder tried to garner compassion for Madison, calling attention to his client’s difficult childhood and broken family.
Felicia Washington-Beaver, Madison’s mother, testified Monday afternoon that her parents had to help raise her son after she got “mixed up with the wrong crowd” and started using drugs. Washington-Beaver said Madison’s father, who is now deceased, did not help her raise Madison.
She said that Madison has his own son — a 3-year-old — and that he’s “a great father.”