The South Alabamian News Podcast
The South Alabamian Newspaper provides local news for Jackson, Alabama.
The South Alabamian News Podcast
Teen sentenced in stabbing
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GROVE HILL — A former Jackson Academy student pleaded guilty Monday to cutting an individual at a school basketball game in 2025. Drayton C. Kelley was sentenced to 15 years behind bars by Mobile Judge Jill Phillips in Clarke County Circuit Court. The sentence, which began immediately, was based on an agreement between prosecutors and the defense. A charge of attempted murder was dismissed based on Kelley’s guilty plea. Local judges recused themselves because a relative in the case was employed by a local law firm. Kelley, 18 and a Jackson Academy senior at the time, assaulted another student at...