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(Cedar City-AP) -- Two 17-year-olds accused of beating their group home counselor to death with a bat will be in court today in Cedar City.
Jesse Simmons and Sean Graham face capital murder, aggravated kidnapping, and theft charges.
Prosecutors say they beat 31-year-old Anson Arnett with a bat at the Maximum Life Skills Academy March 8 and stuffed his body in a closet. Arnett died the next day, and police caught up to the teens in Las Vegas later that day.
The pair waived extradition and were brought back to Utah Monday night.
The state revoked the group home's license earlier this week, but the facility's director says he was already in the process of closing the home because of the traumatic incident.
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