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The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected arguments on allowing the Oxford High Shooter to withdraw his guilty pleas and challenge his life-without-parole sentence.
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The woman who pleaded guilty to the bizarre and tragic shooting of her boyfriend in March 2023 is being released on bail pending a sentencing hearing next month.  
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Cheyanne Metatawabin said she fears she is “a monster.” “Every day, I think of myself as a monster because I know what it’s like to have your precious baby taken away. I’m sorry that that day had happened,” she said to the family of Levi Jordan Brown, who was her boyfriend at the time of […]
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The morning Antony Centeno-So stabbed a friend to death is, he said, “a blur.” “It is all a blur for me because I was regularly sleep deprived and under the influence of crystal meth and fentanyl. This was the lowest time of my life,” he said Thursday at the second day of his sentencing hearing […]
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A 50-year-old man facing charges of manslaughter and arson is the third person charged in the death of a St. Thomas woman last summer, police say. Victoria Dill, 40, died in hospital after she was found with a gunshot wound near the scene of a fire at an apartment at 20 Hiawatha St. in St. […]
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Devon Cherrey-Rooke’s family never doubted how much he loved them and they loved him back. Sometime before his death on Aug. 7, 2022, he sent them a letter saying he was ready to move past the tough life he was living. “I’m done doing drugs. I miss my family, making good money, being trusted and […]
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While Debb Beer’s family poured out their hearts, Joshua Biernacki put his hands over his face and sobbed. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of Debb or talk about Debb, especially with (Beer’s daughter). We often find ourselves watching old videos and looking at pictures,” Beer’s mother Cindy said in her victim […]
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Christine Bishop and Terry Albert’s relationship was described as “tumultuous.” The couple didn’t share any children, but both were addicted to drugs, including fentanyl, the powerful, highly addictive synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and the main drug implicated in the ongoing opioid drug crisis. Both of them were […]
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These are examples of cases that have become way too common in the local courts. A 31-year-old man was acquitted Wednesday in a London courtroom after a trial on a charge of pointing a handgun at another man during an argument along the Richmond Row bar strip, largely because the evidence from witnesses at the […]