Originally charged with capital murder, Sterling Fisher was convicted of murder in the first degree for the stabbing death of a convenience store clerk in Vienna, Virginia.
Mark Petrovich and Thomas Walsh were members of Mr. Fisher’s defense team. Mr. Petrovich argued that his client was deeply involved in a drug lifestyle and regularly using phencyclidine (PCP) at the time the crime was committed. Had Fisher had been convicted of the crime as originally charged, he could have received a death sentence.