P-G: Grieving man urges forgiveness to wife's killer

Brett Styles implored the young man who killed his wife and the mother of their three young children in a terrible accident last year to make something of his life.

"While difficult, I know that Ben Cope deserves my forgiveness," Mr. Styles said at the end of his lengthy victim-impact statement Friday. "After his punishment has concluded, he has his whole life in front of him, and I urge him to make the most of it."

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P-G: Mt. Lebanon driver get 1-2 years in jail for killing jogger

The man who struck and killed a mother jogging with her two young children last year in Mt. Lebanon was ordered to the Allegheny County Jail this morning.

Benjamin T. Cope, 21, convicted of involuntary manslaughter, driving under the influence and recklessly endangering in September, was sentenced to serve from one year less one day to two years less two days incarceration.

The odd wording of the sentence allows Mr. Cope to serve the sentence at Allegheny County Jail.

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Trib: Lesser verdict handed down in Mt. Lebanon stroller crash

A Mt. Lebanon man sobbed on Saturday when an Allegheny County jury acquitted him of the most serious charges he faced for driving into and killing a mother jogging with her children in a stroller.

The jury found Benjamin Cope, 21, guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the June 28, 2010, crash at the corner of Washington and Beading roads that caused the death of Lisa Clay Styles, 36, near her Mt. Lebanon home.

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P-G: Driver in death of Mt. Lebanon jogger found guilty of involuntary manslaughter

Benjamin Cope, who was accused of striking and killing a Mt. Lebanon woman as she jogged with a stroller holding her two small children was found guilty today of involuntary manslaughter.

In reaching its verdict, the jury hearing the case found Mr. Cope not guilty of two more serious charges, vehicular homicide while under the influence and vehicular homicide.

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WTAE: Jury In Mt. Lebanon Mom's Death Views Crash Scene Photos

Nearly 80 photos of evidence -- including an SUV, a baby stroller and scrapes on the ground -- were introduced Thursday to the Benjamin Cope jury, as prosecutors tried to reconstruct the crash that killed Lisa Styles in Mt. Lebanon.

Cope, 21, is on trial for charges including homicide by vehicle. The prosecution claims he was under the influence of marijuana when his vehicle hit Styles, 36, who was pushing her kids in a jogging stroller in a Washington Road crosswalk in June 2010.

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P-G: Jogger case testimony prompts mistrial request, denial

The judge in the case of a man charged with killing a Mt. Lebanon woman as she jogged last summer denied a defense request for a mistrial this morning.

Attorney Bruce Beemer, who represents Benjamin Cope, 21, on charges of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence stemming from the June 28, 2010, crash, asked for a mistrial after a Mt. Lebanon police officer gave unexpected testimony.

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Trib: Passenger recounts 'shared horror' in Mt. Lebanon mom's death

A Mt. Lebanon man said that he locked eyes with Lisa Styles in a "moment of shared horror" last summer as the mother of two was run over by a 4,000-pound SUV during emotional testimony in the Allegheny County Courthouse.

Carl Denig, 27, was a passenger in Benjamin Cope's black truck the day police say Cope rolled through a Mt. Lebanon intersection and struck Lisa Styles, 36, as she jogged at Washington and Beadling roads.

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Trib: Trial starts for man charged with homicide in death of jogging mom

Lisa Clay Styles gripped the jogging stroller holding her two children as long as she could before her left foot got caught underneath a 4,000-pound sport utility vehicle that ran a stop sign in front of her last summer, a prosecutor told an Allegheny County jury on Monday.

Prosecutors say the driver, Benjamin Cope, 21, of Mt. Lebanon, was impaired because he had smoked marijuana the night before the crash. They said the drug was still in his blood.

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• www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_757657.html (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)