It happened so fast : Brother of slain Nashville schools employee testifies as case heads to grand jury Natalie Neysa Alund, Nashville Tennessean
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It would be the last time Benny Walker III saw his younger brother alive.
Benny Walker said that as he closed up shop that day and was taking out the trash, he watched a stranger open fire on his brother, ultimately ending his life.
After listening to testimony from three witnesses including the victim s brother Wednesday, General Sessions Judge Lynda Jones found enough probable cause to bind a criminal homicide case against Robert Rasean Smith over to the next session of the grand jury.
district court s website. as we have been reporting for sometime now, governor george ryan former governor george ryan s lawyers asking for an early release from the federal correctional center in oxford, is with wills. he has served three years of a six and a half year sentence on corruption charges. primary reasons his lawyers are asking for his early release, the failing health of his wife, laura lynn ryan, 55 years of age. doctors say she has anywhere from 3 to 6 months to live with a very aggressive form of lung cancer. now lawyers have asked judge palmeyer to throw out portions of ryan s 2006 conviction based on a recent u.s. supreme court ruling on honest services laws. the u.s. supreme court took some of the teeth out of those types of laws which had been used to prosecute government officials such as george ryan. and that law was recently tossed out or portions of it tossed out by the highest court. ryan was convicted in 2006 on fraud and racketeering charges, lying