Judge Denies Woman's Attempt To Withdraw Tampering Plea: Report

A 23-year-old Camden woman’s attempt to withdraw her guilty plea to witness tampering in a high-profile case has reportedly been denied.

Quiasia Carroll previously pleaded guilty to witness tampering and drug possession, the Courier Post reports. She then attempted to withdraw her plea, saying that she had been coerced into pleading guilty.

That attempt was denied in a hearing in which the judge read her threatening posts aloud and said there was no basis to allow her to withdraw her plea. She was then sentenced to time served, which was 36 days in jail, and a five-year probation to be served concurrently.

Carroll previously admitted that she attempted to intimidate a witness by posting threatening public posts, as well as photos, on a social media website of a witness who was called to testify against Tyhan Brown. The alleged intimidation took place between last June, according to authorities.

Brown was accused of murdering an 8-year-old girl in 2016. He was previously found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, aggravated manslaughter, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a firearm in the death of Gabrielle Hill-Carter. Hill-Carter was the unintended victim of a gang related shooting.

Brown was sentenced to an aggregate 51-year sentence in Hill-Carter's death. Shortly thereafter, Carroll was arrested by officers with the US Marshals and Camden County Sheriff's Department Special Investigation Unit.

Carter-Hill was riding her bicycle outside her house around 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 24, 2016, when she was caught in a crossfire between two groups of people and shot in the head. She was taken to Cooper University Hospital, where she died later that week.

One group of people included Brown, and the other included Dixon. Brown left Camden that night and went to his aunt's house in Sicklerville with his mother and girlfriend. Arrangements were then made by a family friend to fly Brown to Nashville, Tennessee, according to the prosecutor's office.

Camden County Prosecutor's Office detectives determined that Brown opened fire on 8th Street in Camden in an attempt to kill Dixon. The two had been involved in an ongoing dispute, and Brown had threatened Dixon a couple days before the shooting by flashing a gun at him, witnesses told authorities.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Cellular Analysis Survey Team (CAST) conducted an analysis of Brown's cell phone and was able to determine Brown was in the area of the shooting when it happened. Brown had told authorities he was in Sicklerville at the time, according to the prosecutor's office.