Christopher Morris was a longtime JCPS basketball coach at Noe and Conway middle schools, as well as an AAU coach for the Quinn Anvils.

Morris was indicted in August 2022 on 37 counts of child sex abuse related to two former players, from 2012 to 2017 and then 2019 to 2022.

Morris originally entered an Alford plea, allowing him to plead guilty while maintaining innocence in October 2024.

As the jurors exited the court, each held open the wooden gate separating them from the public. At the edge of that gate, a mother crumpled forward ― her elbows pushing into the pew rail, her head in both hands. One by one, each of the dozen jurors glanced at her solemnly.

The jurors' three days of listening to testimony on allegations of 37 counts of child sex abuse against a former middle school and

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