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Clarke County A tractor-trailer traveling on a divided highway

Two People Died at a Thomasville Red Light. The Truck Driver Who Hit Them Will Serve Almost No Additional Time.

James Bullard, July 14, 2026

The driver of an 18-wheeler that rear-ended vehicles stopped at a Thomasville red light in 2025, killing two people, has pleaded guilty to two counts of criminally negligent homicide.

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Bay Minette Courthouse setting representing the Summerdale father indicted in Baldwin County

Summerdale Father Indicted on Five Charges in the Bathtub Death of His 11-Month-Old Son

James Bullard, September 19, 2014

A Baldwin County grand jury indicted a Summerdale father on five counts, including reckless manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, in the May 2014 bathtub death of his infant son.

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Baldwin County Road along the Gulf Coast representing the Orange Beach pedestrian crash case

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Spanish Fort Man in Fatal Orange Beach Crash

James Bullard, September 18, 2014

A Baldwin County grand jury declined to indict a Spanish Fort man in the death of a pedestrian struck while crossing Perdido Beach Boulevard.

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Baldwin County Scales of justice beside legal reference books

A Veteran Prosecutor Inherits the Tangled Nodine Case

James Bullard, November 1, 2011

Retired prosecutor David Whetstone became the latest to take up the tangled Nodine file, named a special prosecutor by the attorney general to pursue a murder theory despite a grand jury’s reduced charge.

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Baldwin County A courthouse setting with legal documents

From Murder to Misdemeanor: Grand Jury Reshapes the Nodine Case

James Bullard, August 25, 2011

A Baldwin County grand jury dramatically reduced the charge against Stephen Nodine to criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor, in the death of Angel Downs, drawing sharp reactions from all sides.

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Mobile A corridor of cells inside a county jail

Mobile Judge Says the ‘Revolving Jailhouse Door’ Is No Simple Matter

James Bullard, July 29, 2011

Mobile County District Judge Michael E. McMaken pushed back on criticism of a ‘revolving jailhouse door,’ arguing that preset bonds, jail overcrowding and shrinking court budgets were bound together in ways the public rarely saw.

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