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ARTHUR â Convicted Arthur child sex offender Christopher J. Landess will be close to 80 years old before heâs eligible for release from prison after receiving two consecutive sentences.
A Monday hearing saw Moultrie County Circuit Court Judge Jeremy Richey sentence the 52-year-old man to four years incarceration after he pled guilty to two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
Richey ordered that sentence to be served after a 30-year sentence Landess had been given April 28 in Champaign County Circuit Court following his conviction there for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.
âWith the combined sentences, Landess will be just short of 80 years old before he would be eligible for release from IDOC custody,â said Moultrie County Stateâs Attorney Tracy Weaver.
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MONTPELIER â The courts are preparing to hold back-to-back jury trials in May after the jury trial restart in Windham County fell through last month. Officials have greenlighted eight courthouses to resume jury trials amid the pandemic, but they donât include those in Bennington County.
Windham County will get another shot at paving the way for the resumption of jury trials, with a jury draw set for May 17 in Brattleboro, according to Stateâs Attorney Tracy Shriver.
Three more counties have also scheduled jury selections next month: Windsor on May 20, Washington on May 24 and Rutland on May 26-28. The others that have gotten approval â Caledonia, Chittenden and Lamoille counties â will be up in June, said Vermont Chief Superior Judge Brian Grearson. But when â or where â the stateâs first jury trial in more than a year will happen is left to be seen. Court officials and the public defende
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It certainly did not merit the courtroom gymnastics of that fictional lawyer, Perry Mason, and regardless of whatever intoxicant Sherlock Holmes may have consumed that day, the famous detective would not deem to consider it. But in September 1894, the mystery of Nyhart’s oats was just about the most exciting crime on Burlington’s court dockets.
The basics of the case were relatively straightforward. A.J. Nyhart farmed in the northern reaches of Des Moines County. That summer he had produced a bumper crop of grain. After an early harvest, he had seven stacks of oats and wheat valued at $350 standing in his south field awaiting movement to market. But that all changed on a warm late summer night.