Saratoga Springs man gets more time to consider pleading guilty in ex-girlfriend’s death
The attorney for a Saratoga Springs man accused of killing his former partner and mother of his child needs more time to decide whether to take a plea.
Sebastian Mabb, 31, is charged with second-degree murder. He allegedly killed Brianna Craig inside a home at Vanderbilt Terrace on Feb. 6. Craig was smothered with a pillow, according to law enforcement sources.
Mabb was in court Monday to accept or reject any plea deal. His attorney told him he needs more time to decide.
Assistant District Attorney Rachael Phelan told the court that a plea offer was provided in writing to Mabb and his attorney. She did not discuss what its terms were.
Judge Jim Murphy said the parties met with him in his chambers and Mabb’s attorney, Assistant Public Defender Michael DiPresso, said he wanted additional time to review that offer and to consider other potential defenses.
Murphy scheduled a conference on June 11 at 1:30 p.m.
The trial is currently scheduled to begin on June 29 at 9 a.m.
Outside the courtroom, Craig’s sister Felicia Travis expressed frustration about the pace of the criminal justice system and for Mabb’s apparent lack of remorse.
“It doesn’t seem like he’s fazed by this at all. When he walked in, he couldn’t even look up to notice the fact that he’s not only hurt his own family, but the family of those who were really close to Brianna,” she said.
Travis said her sister was a warm person who was accepting of anyone and wouldn’t hurt anyone.
She called Mabb someone she thought would become her friend and he turned out to be a “monster.”
“He took the most important thing away from me. It’s unfair,” she said.
The family believes that no potential prison sentence would be sufficient.
“How is it fair that we get to lay my sister six feet in the ground, never to hold her, never to be with her again, but this guy in potentially 23 years gets to walk the streets as if potentially never happened,” Travis said.
“But we lose her for the rest of our lives,” added Craig’s mother Helen Travis.
Another sister, Keaira Konifka, said that Mabb doesn’t seem remorseful at all,
“Not an ounce of regret – sympathy, empathy, nothing. It’s just completely cold. To take away someone like Bri and especially in the way that it was done, is just unfathomable. An unconscionable act. I can’t wrap my head around it.”
The trial is currently scheduled for June 29 at 9 a.m.
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