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Sunday Nov 8 | The Courier-Journal

Killer's appeals drag on 29 years

HADDIX, Ky. - The ramshackle country store is just a dim memory now, destroyed by fire a few years after Karu Gene White and two accomplices forced their way inside and bludgeoned three elderly people to death at dusk on Feb.

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Related Topix: Prison, State Prisons, Death Penalty

Wed Oct 21, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Judge orders testing on hairs in Cecil New case

A Jefferson Circuit Court judge agreed on Monday to allow the New Jersey State Police Office of Forensics to conduct microscopic testing of hairs found on 4-year-old Cesar Ivan Aguilar-Cano, to see if they belong to Cecil Eugene New II, the man charged with kidnapping and killing the boy in the summer of 2007.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, State Prisons, Prison

Mon Oct 19, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Percy Phillips arraignment postponed

The arraignment of Percy Phillips, who was indicted last week in a murder case in which another man was wrongfully convicted of in 1995, has been delayed until Oct.

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Related Topix: Prison, State Prisons, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Louisville, KY

Thu Sep 03, 2009

WKYT-TV Lexington

Northpoint had relaxed smoking policy

The medium-security Kentucky prison that was burned last month during an inmate riot had a more relaxed smoking policy than some others in Kentucky, including four public prisons that have banned smoking altogether.

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Related Topix: Prison, Kentucky, Northpoint Training Center, State Prisons, Burgin, KY

Fri Jun 26, 2009

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Court rejects new trial in double murder case

A Kentucky death row inmate condemned for the rape and murder of two Louisville high school students in 1984 lost his bid for a new trial Thursday after the state Supreme Court ruled a judge properly handled a DNA testing issue.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Kentucky, Prison, Education Etc., State Prisons

Thu Apr 16, 2009

Commonwealth Journal

Prisoner accused of threatening Tapp, Montgomery

A man currently serving prison time for the 2002 murder of a Pulaski County man was indicted by a grand jury this month on additional charges.

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Related Topix: Prison, Pulaski County, KY, State Prisons, Somerset, KY

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