The lawyer for a man accused in Bedford County of selling a pit bull for fighting suggested in court Wednesday that investigators had improperly entrapped him into selling the dog. A judge in Bedford County General District Court said, nonetheless, there is sufficient evidence to send the felony charge of promoting animal fighting against Jeffrey Lynn Denny, 36, to a grand jury in November. The grand jury will determine if Denny should stand trial.
RUMFORD -- The following cases were recently closed in the 11st District Court: Jonathan D. Every, 20, Dixfield, criminal mischief, domestic violence assault on May 29, sent to jury trial on first charge; sent to jury trial on second charge.
Defendants conviction for attempted rape is not against the manifest weight of the evidence; trial courts error in declaring a prosecution witness a courts witness is waived for a failure to object, and any error in admitting the hearsay evidence which that ruling permitted the State to elicit is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; no error is demonstrated in giving the Howard charge to the jury on its report of a deadlock; and, ineffective assistance of counsel is not demonstrated. Conviction affirmed.
A series of witnesses agreed Friday that Tara Rooksberry-Tyree died at the end of a margarita-fueled shouting match, run down in a restaurant parking lot by a woman with whom she'd just had lunch. Whether the horrible episode warranted a first-degree murder charge against Kimberly Eide, the 40-year-old Botetourt County woman who drove a Dodge Durango into Rooksberry-Tyree, was the subject of Friday's hearing in Roanoke County General District Court.
A circuit court's policy of allowing potential jurors to opt out of service by paying a fine and doing community service netted a drug defendant a new trial. In 2007, Donald W. Preston was convicted of attempting to manufacture methamphetamine and sentenced to 15 years in prison. His conviction was affirmed on direct appeal.
ELLSWORTH - A local man accused of punching an officer in the face, then running into nearby woods last November was indicted Thursday by the Hancock County grand jury. Thomas A. Powell, 20, had stopped showing up for drug court appointments in Hancock County when he was recognized Nov. 19, 2009, at Gott's Store by Hancock County Deputy Robert Morang.
A 23-year-old man facing a statutory rape charge in the assault of a teenage girl was ordered held for the action of a Shelby County grand jury after a preliminary hearing Monday in Bartlett. Matthew Cameron Carter of Hernando is charged with alleged sexual contact with a 14-year-old Bartlett girl he began conversing with through the social media network Facebook.
A Christiansburg man who is charged in connection with his cousin's death waived his preliminary hearing Friday. Keith Dean Quesenberry, 22, is charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of 23-year-old Michael Andrew Quesenberry.
DAYTON -- A Montgomery County grand jury declined Thursday to press a felony charge of aggravated burglary against Lee Roberts, a University of Findlay basketball player arrested by University of Dayton police following an altercation near campus. Roberts, whose parents live in Centerville, was arrested Aug. 26 after UD students earlier reported a man had climbed through a window of their house on Kiefaber Street and struck two occupants repeatedly. The junior spent three days in jail before his parents posted bond.
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