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Nov 3, 2009 4:18 pm US/Eastern

Man Enters Alford Plea In Woman's Assault

BALTIMORE (AP) ― A man accused of killing a former Baltimore police commissioner's stepdaughter has entered an Alford plea to assault.

Joseph Bonds, 36, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison, with all but eight years suspended.

Assistant State's Attorney Lisa Goldberg told the court a witness said Bonds and Nicole Desiree Sesker, 39, got into an argument over drugs and he pushed her against a wall in June 2008.

Sesker, the stepdaughter of Leonard Hamm, former Baltimore Police Commissioner, was found dead under a backyard deck the next day. An autopsy showed that she had been strangled and beaten.

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