A combination of factors in recent years has put financial strain on the commission s ability to meet the needs throughout the state. Two proposed bills seek to address the issue.
"You have not to date taken responsibility for the crimes, and I m taking into consideration the safety of the community," Lancaster County District Judge Kevin McManaman said.
Days after Deontae Rush took the stand at his own trial and declared he "had nothing to do with" the shooting, a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder.
The prosecutor said phone records and social media conversations back up what Deontae Rush s co-defendants said, but there was nothing to corroborate what Rush said on the stand.
Their public support of Jackson is the latest twist in a nearly quarter-century-long saga about a North Omaha killing that gets its next chapter Monday.