Aaron Dean is back this week in a new courtroom, under a new judge, who will consider a new request to move the trial out of Tarrant County. A different judge threw out a previous change of venue motion.
Attorneys Jim Lane, D. Miles Brissette and Robert K Gill say the pretrial publicity on the case has been “extensive, prejudicial and inflammatory against Mr. Dean.”
Vying for Boyd County Attorney will be Republican Curtis Dotson, who operates Curtis Law Offices in Ashland, and Democrat Pat Hedrick, who operates Hedrick Law Offices in Catlettsburg.
Although their mandate is to serve the public selflessly, many district attorneys falsely believe they’re above the law. One example is disgraced Ellis County DA Patrick Wilson, who left office in early 2020 after announcing he would not seek reelection. In a 2018 lawsuit seeking to remove him from office, attorney