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Old February 12th, 2007 #2
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Trial begins in Cardington man's death

T-F staff report

Originally published February 10, 2007

MOUNT GILEAD -- A Louisiana man could face death by lethal injection if convicted in the aggravated murder of a Cardington man.

Jury selection in the trial for Carlton Lorenzo Love Jr. is expected to begin at 8:30 a.m. Monday before Judge Howard Hall in Morrow County Court of Common Pleas.

Love has been charged with eight felony counts including aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and kidnapping stemming from the alleged murder of 44-year-old Mark Shrader. The counts of aggravated murder include a specification for the death penalty.
On March 23, 2006, law enforcement officials responded to a 9-1-1 call placed by Shrader's 17-year-old daughter, Katelin Shrader. She told police she and her boyfriend, Love, had returned home from a walk to find her father dead of an apparent gun shot wound to the head.

Within hours of the call, Love was taken into custody for questioning. He was officially charged on March 24.

Since his arrest, Love has remained in custody at the Morrow County Correctional Facility on $1,000,000 cash/corporate bond. He is being represented by Mansfield attorneys Robert Whitney and Bernard Davis.

Morrow County Prosecutor Charles Howland declined to comment on specifics of Love's case. He said he has prosecuted several murder trials, but this will be his first to carry death penalty specifications. Cases with death penalty specifications are unique, he said.

"It is one of the few situations where the jury actually imposes the sentence rather than the judge," he said. "Only in a death penalty case can they do that."

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