Articles Tagged: Chris Bagley

Drew Blahnik’s sentencing is set for Dec. 17. He faces up to 57 years in prison.

Drew Blahnik, convicted of killing Chris Bagley in 2018, wants a new trial, claiming one of the jurors, a Marion bar manager, knew Bagley or Blahnik. Prosecutor says there’s no evidence, just an allegation of a bartender who didn’t totally recall what she said.

A judge will set another hearing on a new trial for Drew Blahnik because a witness couldn’t be at Tuesday’s hearing.

Drew Blahnik, who was convicted of killing Chris Bagley, will wait to be sentenced — the judge will first rule on defense’s motion for new trial based on several legal issues.

Paul Hoff, already serving a federal prison term for drugs and firearms, pleaded to lying to authorities about the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley on Dec. 14, 2018. Hoff pleaded guilty to obstruction of prosecution.

Judge says he’ll likely allow Drew Blahnik, convicted of killing Chris Bagley, to change his name to Johnny Blahnik Church until after Blahnik is sentenced Oct. 12 in the fatal stabbing of Bagley in December 2018. Blahnik wants the name change to further his acting career, even though he faces up to 54 years in prison.

Drew Wagner — convicted for holding down Chris Bagley as another man stabbed him to death in December 2018 — was sentenced Friday to 47 years in prison. He was given the maximum sentences on lesser charges.

Drew Wagner, the Cedar Rapids man who started a fight with Chris Bagley for robbing their drug dealer and then …

Drew Blahnik was convicted of the lesser charge of second-degree murder and two other charges in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in 2018. He faces up to 54 years in prison.

After nearly three days of deliberations, the jury has reached a verdict in Drew Blahnik’s murder trial in the death of Chris Bagley.

No verdict reached after two days of jury deliberations in Drew Blahnik trial. The Linn County jury will continue Thursday. Blahnik is accused of killing Chris Bagley in 2018.

Jurors went home after six hours without reaching a verdict for a Cedar Rapids man who is charged with fatally stabbing Chris Bagley in 2018. They will resume deliberations Wednesday.

The killing of Chris Bagley only took 12 minutes, prosecutor says during her closing argument in the first-degree murder trial of Drew Blahnik. Jury briefly started deliberations Monday and will continue Tuesday.

Live video plus tweets from reporter Trish Mehaffey, in court for the murder trial in Chris Bagley’s death.

Blahnik tells different version of what happened the night he killed Chris Bagley -- in self-defense, he says.