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Jerry Buck Inman looks over at his attorney after he arrives in court Monday Jan. 8, 2007, for a hearing in Pickens, S.C.

PICKENS — A man accused of killing a Clemson University co-ed on May 26, 2006, is still trying to plead guilty to the charge.

Jerry Buck Inman's defense attorney said Wednesday that his client still wants to plead guilty in the killing of Tiffany Marie Souers.

Judge Edward Miller denied a similar motion by defense attorney James Bannister in September 2007. At that time, Bannister revealed his client’s desire to plead guilty if he could receive a separate trial for sentencing.

It will again be up to Miller whether or not to accept the plea. Bannister said he will address "legal issues" surrounding the plea at a hearing tentatively

scheduled for Aug. 19 or 26.

Inman sat grim-faced through a 90-minute hearing at the Pickens County Courthouse, Wednesday.

The previously convicted sex offender was arrested in June 2006 for the murder of Souers, a junior civil engineering student at Clemson University. Souers’ body was discovered in her first-floor apartment at The Reserve, located on Sumter Lane off S.C. Highway 93 in Central. She had been strangled.

Inman, 36, was charged with kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct in the first degree in addition to murder.

In August 2006, 13th Circuit Solicitor Bob Ariail announced that he would seek the death penalty against Inman.