Short deliberations produce guilty verdict
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An Oconee jury returned a guilty verdict this afternoon in SC v. Gaines. And the judge followed that verdict with the pronouncement of a 20-year prison term for Mack Adam Gaines. At 62 years old, Gaines was found guilty of abuse or neglect resulting in death — vulnerable adult. The victim was his 92-year old mother, Alma Louise Gaines. It’s not the first lengthy prison term in Mr. Gaines’ life. As a young man in 1981, according to Deputy Solicitor Alderman, Mr. Gaines was found guilty of killing a Seneca service station operator.