S.T. Vaughn III and Douglas "Kenny" Cross Jr. -- two former collegiate scholarship swimmers from Raleigh -- will walk into a federal courthouse in Gainesville, Fla., today and find out whether they will spend their lives in prison.
Vaughn and Cross, both 21, graduated in 2003 from Southeast Raleigh and Millbrook high schools, respectively, with promising futures as competitive swimmers at Florida A&M University.
By early 2005, they had met Gerald "J.R." Raymond, 27, a former convict and graduate of Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham. Several months later, the trio went on a crime spree, robbing as many as 50 hotels, check-cashing stores and other businesses mainly along interstates in Florida and Georgia.
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