Jurors in the trial of Jamie Letson heard how a timeline error once pointed detectives toward a University of South Alabama campus officer, and how a 2008 interview changed the case.
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Mobile
A Letter to the Dead: Trial Opens in 1980 Killing of USA Student Katherine Foster
Thirty years after Katherine Foster was shot on the University of South Alabama campus, jurors were seated in the murder trial of Jamie Letson, whose handwritten letter of amends may become evidence.
Dauphin Island
Two Judges Opened Campaigns and a Former DA Bowed Out of the Race
District Judges Charlie McKnight and Bob Sherling scheduled campaign kickoffs, while former Circuit Judge and District Attorney Chris Galanos explained, candidly, why he would not challenge for a circuit seat.
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A Judicial Shuffle in Mobile County: New Faces on the Bench and a Campaign Season Underway
A packed campaign kickoff at Wintzell’s, a newly sworn district judge and a quiet bar inquiry into a former circuit judge left the Mobile County courthouse in an unusual state of flux in January 2008.
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GOP Chairman Mark Erwin Applies for the Circuit Judgeship Left by Herman Thomas
Mobile attorney and Republican Party chairman Mark Erwin formally applied for the circuit court vacancy created by Judge Herman Thomas’s resignation, as more names surfaced for the appointment.