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Appeals court upholds Lowndes County capital murder conviction

Attorney General Steve Marshall said this week that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Deandra Marquis Lee on capital murder during a robbery. Lee, 24, is from Montgomery and was convicted in Lowndes County Circuit Court in October 2018 for the 2012 murders of 9-year-old twins Jordan and Taylor Dejerinett and … Continued

Brandon Moseley

September 10, 2020

Opinion

Black store owner calls police to report a robbery. They show up, punch and arrest him

Mistaken identity. That’s how Decatur Police Chief Nate Allen described an incident in which DPD officers punched, wrestled to the ground and ultimately arrested a Decatur store owner who had called them to report a robbery. The store owner was a black man. So, yeah, mistaken identity. The incident occurred back in March, but it … Continued

Josh Moon

June 9, 2020

Parole hearings this Week

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles announced in a statement to the press that it will hold parole hearings for twenty violent offenders this week. Among them one murderer, three sex offenders, and eight who were convicted of robbery. Deashton Luvoris Hayes is a two-time convicted robber. He was sentenced in 2010 to two … Continued

Brandon Moseley

December 17, 2019

Parole Board denies parole for five more felons, citing violent offenses

Tuesday, the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles denied parole for five more offenders deemed too violent for early release. The Board denied parole to Vondale Parker is a violent criminal who just last week punched a prison employee in the face. Parker has had a long criminal career, with seven convictions in Marshall County. … Continued

Brandon Moseley

December 4, 2019

45 years later, man sentenced to life at 16-years-old seeks parole

Faith communities, prisoners’ rights groups, friends and family of man sentenced to life at 16-years-old are advocating for his parole to be approved after spending over 45 years in prison. Andre Legay Wallace was convicted of murder, robbery, rape and mayhem in 1974. He was then sentenced to concurrent terms of life in prison for … Continued

Jessa Reid Bolling

November 14, 2019

Leeds man convicted on federal gun and ammunition charges

Tuesday, a federal jury convicted Christopher “Rudy” McNabb from Leeds of three firearm and ammunition related offenses. The jury verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Jay E, Town and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson. The jury returned its guilty verdict against the 44-year-old McNabb after two … Continued

Brandon Moseley

August 15, 2019

Cobb campaign employs registered sex offender as field director

People change, but few campaigns hire registered sex offenders to go door-to-door canvassing for votes, but former Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb did. Judge Cobb says she didn’t know that her campaign hired a rapist until a story was about to break, but her campaign did. Birmingham families didn’t know that a sexual predator was … Continued

Susan Britt

May 9, 2018

Montez Butler gets 10 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm

By Staff Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, November 16, 2017 U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin Sr. announced that Keyon Montez Butler (24) of Montgomery, Alabama was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Federal law prohibits a person convicted of a felony from possessing firearms or ammunition. … Continued

November 17, 2017

Strange and Jeffco DA Announce Mutliple Charges Against Violent Career Criminal

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Patrick O’Neal Warren has already been such a repeated menace to the people of Alabama that he has earned himself a life sentence in a state penitentiary. Now investigators with Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange’s Cold Case Unit has identified additional crimes that Warren may have committed. AG Luther … Continued

Brandon Moseley

August 30, 2012