INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (AP) -- A jury convicted a man of second-degree domestic assault Saturday for shoving a cell phone down his girlfriend's throat.

Prosecutors said Marlon Brando Gill, 25, of Kansas City, forced the cell phone into Melinda Abell's mouth during a quarrel in December 2005.

Gill denied the charge, claiming that Abel had tried to swallow the phone to prevent him from finding out whom she had been calling.

Abell, 25, of Blue Springs was rushed to a hospital, where doctors removed the phone. Doctors said she nearly choked to death.

"I think he thought I'd been talking to other guys," Abell wrote in a statement to police after the incident. "If I didn't want him to see my phone, I would have just thrown it out the window and busted it."

It was Gill's second trial since his arrest more than a year ago. Jurors in July were unable to reach a verdict on a first-degree domestic assault charge, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Jurors could not agree on a sentence for Gill, which means that decision will be left up to a judge. The assault charge carries a sentence of up to seven years in prison.



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What is 'Gag Factor' up to now? Edition 25? Surely at this point they are straining to come up with new tweaks to the formula to keep it fresh. Such stories can't help but inspire them at this point, especially that it contains the vengeful boyfriend angle- a frequent scenario in this series. And with Aurora Snow 'Gag Factor 5' ringtones readily available, the possibility of shoving a cellular phone bruitally into a woman woman's esophagus as her head is upsidedown then dialing the number to said phone from a second phone causing Aurora's penifueled vocalizations from 2001 to emit from her muffled and electronic...I don't know hopw to tie up that last sentence or whatever it is.

The Vietnamese understand such a tale is worthless without pictures

An "evidence" photo would be great.