HASTINGS, Minn. – After being acquitted of the 2007 murder of bicyclist Mark Loesch, Jamaal Freeman was taken from the Hennepin County Jail to the Dakota County Jail on Tuesday, where he was booked on a probation violation.
Freeman, 24, was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning to answer a probation violation charge in Dakota County. He pleaded guilty in 2006 to a receiving stolen property and violated that probation in October 2007, right before getting arrested for the Loesch murder.
Freeman is expected to be sentenced Wednesday to time served for the probation violation.
Freeman was found not guilty for a second time Tuesday in the Loesch murder, following a retrial. He was found guilty of 2nd degree murder in May but acquitted of first degree murder.
Mark Loesch was beaten to death in September 2007 while on a late night bike ride. Prosecutors contended Jamaal Freeman needed money to go to a strip club, so he robbed and killed the 41-year-old Loesch.
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