Man acquitted of brutal cabbie murder two months after pal was found guilty

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today acquitted Jashawn Robinson, 22, of Brighton, of fatally stabbing Brookline cab driver Heureur Previlon in 2005, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

In December, another Suffolk jury found Cleveland "Sleazy" Martin guilty on a first-degree murder charge for Previlon's death.

In both cases, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charged that Robinson and Martin called up a Brookline cab company - knowing that Brookline cabs did not use bullet-proof separators behind the drivers - for a death ride from Cleveland Circle to Monastery Road in Brighton. Prosecutors charged they even got into the cab with knives with aluminum wrapped around the handles to prevent fingerprints, and that once they got to a parking lot near St. Elizabeth's, they stabbed Previlon to death and then took refuge in the nearby apartment of Martin's girlfriend.

Robinson is not through with court - he faces a separate assault-and-battery case in Boston Municipal Court.