Prosecutors Seek Life Sentence for Cedric Robertson in Nakita Davidson Murder
The state will request that the accused killer spend the rest of his life in prison after an evaluation ruled he did not have a mental disability.
By Kofi Costa ·
State prosecutors plan to ask a judge to lock Cedric Robertson away for life without the chance of parole.
The decision came out of a court hearing held on Monday morning. Officials cited the results of an Atkins evaluation, a legal test that checks whether a defendant has a mental disability. Robertson pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in August 2024. His trial is currently scheduled to begin in October 2027.
Robertson is accused of killing Nakita Davidson, a 40-year-old mother of four. Police believed Davidson was kidnapped from the scene of a car wreck. Her 2008 Saturn Outlook was driven away from the crash site. Robertson had been dating Davidson at the time. A warrant for his arrest was issued shortly after the incident.
Detectives found Davidson’s body a few days later. She was located in the trunk of her own car inside a wooded, dead-end area on 18th Place SW. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office confirmed that she died from gunshot wounds. Investigators concluded that Robertson placed Davidson in her vehicle and drove it to the hiding spot.
This was not Robertson’s first brush with the law involving a kidnapping. In 2017, he was charged with first-degree kidnapping and pleaded guilty. He served eighteen months in jail and was then sentenced to community corrections and probation. He was still on that sentence when he allegedly abducted and shot Davidson in 2024.
