by Trish Rudder
Gabriel J. Cardwell, 23, formerly of Martinsburg, was sentenced to 15 years for voluntary manslaughter on Friday, February 2 in Morgan County Circuit Court.
A local jury found Cardwell guilty of fatally stabbing a Berkeley Springs man — Scott A. Mullen, 47 — during an altercation at a party on September 5, 2022.
The case was presided over by Circuit Judge Debra McLaughlin.
Cardwell’s defense attorney, Craig Manford, suggested Cardwell was a…
