365 Days of Texas True Crime: Nettie Part 2
18 months after Velma Nesset was murdered and left under a drainage culvert as she walked to work a 22 year-old man was arrested and charged with her murder. Johnny Ray Foote had worked with Nesset at the mall for just a month and he happened to live in the same apartment complex as she did. When police brought him in for questioning they were able to obtain a confession, but was that confession coerced? 244th Judicial District Judge Joe Connally didn t seem to think so based on the evidence that was presented to him at the time. Defense attorney John Hoestenbach tried to have the statements that Foote had made to investigators during questioning suppressed. He argued that his client had a low IQ and very little education and he was vulnerable to the pressure the police were putting him under during their interrogation. Hoestenbach argued that the confession was simply to end what he called, police harassment.
Sheriff Mike Griffis said there have been no positive tests for the virus in months. Author: Zach Leff Updated: 3:48 AM CDT May 19, 2021
ODESSA, Texas Sheriff Mike Griffis and Ector County Jail has provided an update on their COVID-19 results in the facility lately.
Griffis said that there have been no COVID-19 positive tests in months.
There have been also around 30% of the staff vaccinated, and while inmates have not received the vaccine yet, the jail is working on allowing them to get the vaccine if they want soon.
There has been more weeks, months that we have not have COVID-19 then we did, Griffis said. I believe we had one of the best COVID-19 rates in the state when it comes to county jails and you know we have no COVID-19 right now.