An Athens man sentenced to life in prison without parole two years ago for killing a man in a dispute over pork skins is scheduled to have a hearing this week on his motion for a new trial.

Marvin Lewis Brown Jr., 29, fatally shot 24-year-old Javious Cordez Tucker in 2014 outside of a home where the victim and others had gathered to watch the Super Bowl.

Six months later, Brown’s case went to trial in Clarke County Superior Court where a jury found him guilty of malice murder. When sentencing Brown to life without parole, Judge H. Patrick Haggard told Brown that he had killed someone for an "absurd" reason.

After he was convicted, Brown filed a motion for a new trial on the grounds the judge allowed the jury to improperly consider Brown’s character, among other reasons.

Brown on Monday was transferred from Ware State Prison to the Athens-Clarke County Jail in preparation for a hearing on the motion for a new trial.

The fatal shooting happened the afternoon of Feb. 2, 2014. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and Brown and others had gathered at a home on Lombardy Circle to watch the Denver Broncos battle the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL championship game.

Tucker went to that house to borrow an air pump, and when he saw Brown outside of the residence, he asked Brown if he could have some pork skins, but Brown told Tucker there weren’t enough left to share.

An argument between the two turned physical, but was broken up. Tucker drove away when told to leave, but he later crossed paths with Brown, who was down the street with some friends.

When a second altercation ensued, Tucker opened the trunk of his car and took out a tire iron, but then got back into the car and began to drive away. Brown got a gun from his car and ran after Tucker, firing nine shots into the victim’s car.

Tucker was struck by seven bullets and died at the scene.

Brown fled after the fatal shooting on Lombardy Circle, but was arrested two days later in Gwinnett County after a tipster told Athens-Clarke County police that he was going to an apartment complex in that county. Gwinnett County police arrested Brown during a traffic stop on a vehicle he was in as it approached the complex.

The jury found Brown guilty of malice murder and felony murder, aggravated assault, use of a firearm by a convicted felon during the commission of a crime and related offenses.

Brown had been previously convicted of having sex with an underage teen who he repeatedly struck, kicked and bit during a 24-hour period in which he would not allow the girl to leave his home.

Eight months after that, Brown shot at a group of people during a drive-by incident in east Athens. No one was injured, but police said bullets struck a car and windows of two apartments at Nellie B Homes.

As the result of deals made with prosecutors in the separate cases, Brown pleaded guilty to statutory rape, false imprisonment and multiple counts of aggravated assault. He was sentenced to five years in confinement and another five years on probation for the combined cases.

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