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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Ind. Courts - More on: "A judge has ordered a defendant to 'return to the South Bend Tribune and admit that he lied' to a reporter."
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 13th, an AP story today reports:
A man walked into the newsroom of the South Bend Tribune under a court order today and admitted lying to a reporter when he denied having sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl.Michael P. Sheneman, 56, pleaded guilty on June 4 to fondling the girl but denied the charge in an interview with a Tribune reporter for a story two weeks later.
St. Joseph Superior Judge Jerome Frese chastised Sheneman during a hearing last month, telling him that his conflicting stories had cast the criminal justice system in a bad light and ordering him to return to the newspaper to admit that he had lied.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 2, 2007 07:35 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts