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By DAN DEARTH | dan.dearth@herald-mail.com | December 19, 2012
A Sharpsburg man charged last month with illegal possession of firearms was granted a continuance during a hearing Wednesday in Washington County District Court. Defense attorney Gregory Bannon asked Judge Mark D. Thomas to grant the continuance because he said he needed more time to prepare for the defense of Terry Allen Porter, 46, of 4433 Mills Road. Porter and Bannon spent about a minute in court on Wednesday to ask for the continuance. Porter declined to comment afterward.
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By ROXANN MILLER | roxann.miller@herald-mail.com | January 18, 2012
For the fifth time, a continuance has been granted in the case of the woman charged with vehicular homicide in the July 2010 crash that killed a Waynesboro teenager. Mary Ellen Bonebrake's attorney, Wayne Bradburn of State College, Pa., sought a fifth continuance Wednesday in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. That request was not opposed by Chief Deputy District Attorney David Rahauser, but he said the case needs to proceed. "Time is of the essence. This is the fifth continuance," Rahauser said.
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By DON AINES | March 6, 2000
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Defendants in two criminal homicide cases dating back to the 1970s have been granted continuances in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. Larry Eugene Hull, 52, of St. Thomas, Pa., pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison in 1979, but a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals granted him a new trial last year. Hull was charged in the Feb. 25, 1975, shooting death of Lloyd Shatzer of St. Thomas. Pennsylvania State Police records said Hull dumped Shatzer's body down a well after he was shot during a drunken argument.
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By DAN DEARTH | dan.dearth@herald-mail.com | June 11, 2013
A Washington County Circuit Court judge Tuesday granted a continuance for a Myersville, Md., man who was shot several times by police last year during an incident at a park-and-ride lot near Boonsboro. James Jacob Jardina, 46, was charged with two counts each of first- and second-degree assault, use of a handgun in a crime of violence, possession of a stolen handgun and other offenses in the June 10, 2012, confrontation with police at the lot on Mapleville Road off Interstate 70. Jardina, wearing gray pants with no belt and a blue button-downed shirt, entered the courtroom Tuesday with the assistance of a walker.
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By DAN DEARTH | June 29, 2007
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Bunker Hill, W.Va., attorney accused of killing his ex-wife last year and dumping her dismembered body in or along Back Creek in western Berkeley County was granted a continuance of his trial Friday in Berkeley County Circuit Court. The trial of Stephen R. Fielder, 58, of 9280 Winchester Ave., which was scheduled to begin in late July, was continued to Nov. 6. A pretrial hearing was set for Oct. 26. Fielder shuffled into court Friday wearing an orange jumpsuit, handcuffs and shackles.
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January 12, 2011
A liquor license violation hearing for Cancun Cantina was continued Wednesday and will be rescheduled for March, county liquor board officials said. John Salvatore, the attorney for the Washington County Board of License Commissioners, requested the continuance because a Hagerstown Police Department officer who was scheduled to testify was unable to be there. Related medical records also had not been obtained. Joseph Rouse, representing Cancun Cantina on Dual Highway near Hagertown, opposed the continuance because a number of witnesses had been assembled, but the liquor board members decided to grant the continuance.
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July 14, 1998
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Chambersburg man charged with criminal homicide was granted a continuance until the September trial term during an appearance Monday in Franklin County, Pa., Court. Kevin J. Barrett, of 627 Siloam Road, told Judge John R. Walker he recently fired his private attorney. His new lawyer, Public Defender Robert J. Trambley, asked for a continuance until the November trial term, but Walker denied the request. Barrett is charged in the Sept. 7, 1997, shooting death of Wendy Schuchman outside Siggy's bar on Norland Avenue.
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by ERIN CUNNINGHAM | May 3, 2006
HAGERSTOWN Attorneys for an inmate accused of killing a correctional officer at Washington County Hospital in January filed a motion April 25 to postpone his trial for 18 months. Brandon Morris, 20, was indicted Feb. 22 by a Washington County grand jury on 36 counts, including three first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Jeffery Alan Wroten. Morris' trial was scheduled to begin July 31 and last at least five days. Washington County State's Attorney Charles P. Strong Jr. filed a response to the defense motion Monday.
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By DON AINES | dona@herald-mail.com | May 1, 2012
The defendant and the victim were both in jail and available for trial, but five prosecution witnesses failed to show Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court, delaying for two months the trial of a 16-year-old city teen charged with attempted murder. Maurice Davoughn McMillan, of 623 N. Locust St. in Hagerstown is charged with second-degree attempted murder, first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in the Oct. 9, 2011, stabbing of Jarvel Fostion. Fostion, 18, of 106 W. Bethel St., Apt. B, Hagerstown, was stabbed five times in the torso, according to city police charging documents.