Former Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine asked that his murder retrial be moved out of Baldwin County, arguing that intense publicity had inflamed opinion against him and made an impartial jury impossible.
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Baldwin County
Baldwin Judge Charles Partin Calls Retirement Rumors Premature
Baldwin County Circuit Judge Charles Partin, a 25-year veteran of the bench who recently presided over the Steve Nodine murder trial, said talk of his imminent retirement was at least premature.
Baldwin County
Former Commissioner Steve Nodine Freed Ahead of Murder Trial
Former Mobile County Commissioner Steve Nodine walked out of federal custody this week for the first time in nearly a month, though his freedom could prove short-lived as Baldwin County authorities pressed to revisit his bond.
Mobile
Confessions and a Discarded Theory as Letson Murder Trial Nears Its End
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.
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.