photo: KENNY KEMP | Gazette-Mail Chellbie Hudson enters the courtroom of Kanawha Circuit Judge Joanna Tabit on Tuesday. Hudson, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of child neglect resulting in injury related to the death of her 8-month-old daughter last year. A St....
HAMLIN – Pretrial matters continued in the case of Edward Jeffers, last week, the man charged with the murder of his wife, Stephanie Jeffers, in late 2017. The accused made his latest appearance in Lincoln County Circuit Court, last week. Jeffers, 31, appeared...
A Charleston woman who forged her mother’s will and tried to claim her entire estate, worth more than $1 million, was sentenced to home confinement Monday by a Kanawha County judge on Monday. Circuit Judge Charles King sentenced Tracie Dean Wilson, 46, to spend...
The sentencing in a 2017 sexual abuse case has been postponed until August, after it was found the defendant had not been given a sexual offender evaluation by a doctor before appearing in Kanawha Circuit Court on Thursday. Michael Ray Moles, Jr., 43, of Blout, had...
Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom said he believed in the capability of a man, who pleaded guilty to robbery and wanton endangerment, to turn his life around Thursday. Bloom told Christopher Sean Bennett he had considered a harsher sentence for Bennett, but ultimately...
A plea deal was reached Monday morning between a prosecuting attorney and a Montgomery man who was accused of shooting another man in 2017 then striking his own girlfriend with a frying pan while he was out of jail on bond for the shooting. Marcus Dewayne Blanks, 47,...
Throwback to a felony case Rob handled in 2007 for a client whose sentence was suspended and was placed on probation. Photo and story courtesy of the Lincoln Journal. by Sean O’Donoghue, Managing Editor HAMLIN – Sentencing of an 18-yr-old charged with...
by Sean O’Donoghue, Managing Editor HAMLIN – A woman, indicted by a Lincoln County grand jury recently on a single felony marijuana manufacturing count, appeared in circuit court and pleaded not guilty last week. Laura Marie Hager (case 19-F-14) appeared...
by Sean O’Donoghue, Managing Editor HAMLIN – “Even if the waivers didn’t apply, we’ve already danced twice,” said Chief Circuit Court Judge Jay Hoke to a jail inmate recently. Eden Miller, accused of violating the terms of her probation on a number of...
by Sean O’Donoghue, Managing Editor HAMLIN – Pretrial matters continued in the case of Edward Earl Jeffers, last week, the man charged with the murder of his wife, Stephanie Jeffers, in late 2017. The accused made his latest appearance in Lincoln County...
By SEÁN O’DONOGHUE Managing Editor, Lincoln Journal HAMLIN – A Lincoln County man was transported from jail, recently, to make his first circuit court appearance since being indicted by a Lincoln County grand jury for a number of alleged violent felony crimes....
Kanawha County man sentenced for strangulation and battery of a woman. Click to see original video news...
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