Men plead guilty in death of Iowa man in Atlanta

DES MOINES, IOWA - Two men convicted of robbing an Iowa man who fell to his death from a third-floor window at an Atlanta YMCA have been sentenced to prison. <br> <br> Fifty-one-year-old Lawrence David Green of Des Moines, Iowa, was killed in the fall last May. <br> <br> Twenty-five-year-old Reccardio Jackson and 24-year-old Marcus Wright pleaded guilty last week before their trial was to start. <br> <br> Jackson pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and armed robbery and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Wright pleaded guilty to armed robbery and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. <br> <br> A third suspect, James Starling, is awaiting trial on a murder charge. <br> <br> Green&#39;s sister, Anita Ferguson, said her brother resisted during the robbery. <br> <br> She said, ``My brother went down on one knee. He was leaning on a chair trying to get up when Jackson pushed him and he fell out the window.&#39;&#39;