Feds oppose delaying Muncie officers excessive force trial
June 6, 2021
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) Federal prosecutors are objecting to an effort by four Muncie police officers to delay their trial on allegations they used excessive force during arrests or tried to cover up that misconduct.
The officers are set to stand trial in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis on Sept. 21 a date attorneys in the case agreed to last November, according to Acting U.S. Attorney John Childress.
But Childress said in a recent motion that lawyers for officers Chase Winkle, Jeremy Gibson, Joseph Krejsa and Corey Posey now want to have the trial, which has already been postponed three times, reset for January 2022.
Top court spurns appeal in Ball State student s 1994 killing
May 5, 2021
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed a central Indiana man s appeal of his life sentence for fatally shooting a Ball State University student in 1994 during an attempted robbery.
The court issued an order Monday declining to hear Larry Wayne Newton Jr. s appeal of a Delaware County judge s 2016 decision denying his bid for post-conviction relief, The Star Press reported.
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision finally closes the book on this horrendous saga,” Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman said Tuesday in a statement.
Newton was 17 in September 1994 when the Muncie resident fatally shot Christopher Coyle a 19-year-old Ball State University student from Pendleton during an attempted off-campus robbery.