Eight men and four women will begin hearing evidence Tuesday in the case of a Roanoke Rapids minister charged with indecent liberties with a minor.
On his 16th birthday today, Daquon Martin was sentenced to 64 to 89 months in prison along with his 18-year-old co-defendant, Jimmy Williams Jr., in a shooting which occurred December 11 on Madison Street.
A jury picked from Warren County to hear evidence and deliberate the fate of Jimell Horton found the Enfield man not guilty of all counts against him in the 2013 shooting deaths of Chris Harrison and Monte Hines.
A state witness and defendant in the Jimmel Horton murder trial claims Horton sent him letters while in the Halifax County Jail telling him to say nothing about the case.
The state began laying its groundwork, introducing 21 pieces of pictorial evidence, in its effort to win a conviction against Jimmel Horton.
Warren County jurors will be transported to Halifax County to hear evidence in the murder trial of Jimmel Horton, whose original case ended in a mistrial last October.
The state cannot try William Meinsen, a Roanoke Rapids minister facing sex offense counts against a minor, on a recently filed misdemeanor charge, but may use the count as a bargaining chip for a plea offer if he agrees to accept it.
The attorney representing a minister facing sex offense counts with a minor filed a motion to have a recently lodged misdemeanor count against his client dismissed.
A juvenile charged in a December 11 shooting on Madison Street has been ordered to go through the Halifax County superior court system, records confirm.
Mediation is an option in the lawsuit filed against the Halifax County Board of Commissioners regarding the three separate school systems in the county.
