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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Ind. Courts - "Evans-Koethe trial set for January"
Updating this ILB entry from July 17th that was headed "Venue changed in LaPorte County judge's case; 200 anonymous online newspaper reader comments entered in evidence," yesterday the LaPorte Herald-Argus reported:
CROWN POINT - Superior Court 3 Judge Jennifer Evans-Koethe and her husband had hearings Monday in regards to their cases from the December incident where Evans-Koethe was grazed in the head with a bullet.Evans-Koethe had a pretrial conference Monday morning and her trial is still set to begin Jan. 4, 2010. She was indicted on a charge of obstruction of justice, a Class D felony. The indictment said she asked for a handwritten note, which was evidence in an investigation of the shooting Dec. 22, to be destroyed on Dec. 23.
Her husband, Stephan Koethe, also had a hearing in Crown Point on Monday. He has another hearing on Jan. 4. He has been indicted on charges of false informing, a Class A misdemeanor and criminal recklessness, a Class B misdemeanor.
Evans-Koethe was suspended indefinitely with pay following the indictment in May.
The case was moved to Lake County when defense attorney Michael Tuszynski of the South Bend firm of William P. Stanley & Associates successfully filed a change of venue request. He cited media coverage of the case and said Evans-Koethe could not get a fair jury in the county.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 7, 2009 09:03 AM
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