More testimony planned in effort for new trial
MANISTEE (AP) — A judge is expected to hear more testimony that could lead to a new trial for a Detroit-area man convicted of killing his wife by dragging her into a lake in northwestern Michigan.
Mark Unger has new experts to challenge the prosecution’s theory of the 2003 death of Florence Unger. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports testimony began last month and more witnesses are planned.
Unger’s attorney F. Martin Tieber says more testimony likely won’t take place until August at the earliest.
Authorities said the Huntington Woods woman was pushed off the roof of a boathouse and dragged into Lower Herring Lake, where she drowned.
Mark Unger was convicted in Benzie County and is serving a life sentence, but he insists the fall was accidental.
KKK application to adopt highway denied
ATLANTA (AP) — A Ku Klux Klan group in Georgia has lost its bid to join the state’s highway cleanup program, but a legal challenge to the decision may be looming.
The International Keystone Knights of the KKK in Union County applied last month to the “Adopt-A-Highway” program, hoping to clean up along part of Route 515 in the Appalachian Mountains.
Transportation Department officials met with lawyers from the state Attorney General’s Office and also consulted with Gov. Nathan Deal.
The agency said recently it would deny the KKK group’s application, adding that the program is aimed at “civic-minded organizations in good standing.”
The statement went on to say that motorists who drive past signs promoting the KKK could be distracted creating a safety issue.
Judge says police used excessive force
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge is maintaining his ruling that Albuquerque police used excessive force in the 2009 arrest of a drunken man who was subdued using stun guns, bean bag rounds and a police dog.
The Albuquerque Journal reported that U.S. District Court Chief Judge Bruce Black has rejected the city’s argument to alter his judgment against four police officers. Black overturned a jury’s verdict in favor of the city in April.
The judge had ruled there was no justification for police to see 60-year-old Tony Nelson, who was unarmed, as a threat.
Black said in a separate order he will not delay a trial on damages for plaintiff Nelson until next year.
A trial for damages is scheduled to begin July 2 in Santa Fe.
Woman jailed in attack with marshmallow fork
OHIOVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A woman has been jailed on charges she attacked her son’s father with a fork used to roast marshmallows and bit the man when he tried to remove her from the residence.
The Beaver County Times reports that 23-year-old Sarah Chambers of Ohioville Township was arrested when police were called to the residence where neighbors saw the alleged victim being bitten while he was dragging Chambers outside the house.
Police say Chambers told them, “Take me to jail now” when they arrived to find the man with a cut on his head, a six-inch gash inside his left thigh, and multiple puncture wounds on both legs.
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