Joshua Phillips has spent 25½ years behind bars for something that even he described as "horrible" and "unfathomable." At the age of 14, he beat and stabbed his 8-year-old neighbor Maddie Clifton to ...
Joshua Phillips, who killed his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddie Clifton, in November 1998, when he was 14 years old, was in court briefly Monday, where his attorney requested the judge push back a hearing ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The man who was a teen when he killed an 8-year-old Jacksonville girl is appealing his sentence of life in prison. Joshua Phillips was 14 when he killed 8-year-old Maddie Clifton ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The family of Maddie Clifton, an 8-year-old whose murder shook the entire community in 1998, spoke up about an upcoming sentence review for her killer. Joshua Phillips, 41, ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In one of the highest-profile cases in Jacksonville in recent decades, a state appeals court Tuesday upheld the life sentence of a neighbor convicted in the 1998 murder of ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — UPDATE: Joshua Phillips was back in Duval County Court on Monday morning. His attorneys are asking the judge to review his life sentence. The judge agreed to a July 8 status ...
JACKSONVILLE — She'd pull four plates, four forks and four knives from the cupboard and then it would hit her: There were only three in the family now. Jessie Clifton was 11 when in 1998 her ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — More than two decades after an 8-year-old girl was murdered in Jacksonville, the Florida Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal by a man convicted in the high-profile case.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A case that shares similarities to Aiden Fucci’s case was vaguely mentioned during his sentencing trial for the murder of Tristyn Bailey. In 1998, 14-year-old Joshua Phillips, who ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Joshua Phillips, whose murder trial is underway in Kanawha County Circuit Court, will not testify on his own behalf. The revelation came Wednesday after Judge Jennifer ...