Durham, N.C. — Mike Peterson retrial likely won’t include the drama of his highly publicized 2003 murder trial, legal experts said Friday. A novelist and one-time Durham mayoral candidate, Peterson was granted a new trial Wednesday when Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson ruled that a key prosecution witness in his trial eight years ago gave false and misleading testimony, depriving…read more →
COLLEGE PARK – A local realtor is charged with first-degree murder after police found her boyfriend dead in a College Park home early Wednesday morning. As Caryn Kelley, 46, was led away from Orlando police headquarters, she claims the victim shot himself. A 911 call came from a home in the 900 block of West Smith Street at 4:49 a.m. When police arrived, a…read more →
ORLANDO, Fla., April 5 (UPI) — Prosecutors in a Florida murder trial say they don’t want jurors to watch certain television channels while they are sequestered. The prosecution in the trial of Casey Anthony, charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie, wants Lifetime and the Lifetime Movie Network removed from a list of…read more →
Instead, he was expected to meet with Bartow defense lawyer Julia Williamson to review what he will say when he takes the witness stand today. Garrion Davis, 31, had told police he talked with his brother the afternoon that two women were attacked and burned alive at a Lake Wales insurance office in December 2007. Leon Davis, 34, is now…read more →
