SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WISH) – Falana McLeod believes the man who killed her son should still be in prison. 

During a Sept. 30 hearing, McLeod tearfully spoke against a deal offered by St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter. The deal would allow Jones to plead down his murder conviction to a lesser battery charge. 

“He knew what he was going to do that day. In school, he told his schoolmates that he was going to kill Cornell,” McLeod said in court. “I don’t understand.”

With time served, Jones was released from prison. A free man, just 10 years after being convicted of murdering McLeod’s son, Cornell Taylor.

“It doesn’t sound like you’re fighting for the victim. It sounds like you’re fighting for him,” McLeo...