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For the second time, an Allegheny County jury could not reach a verdict in the homicide case against Jerry Gaines.
Through sobs, Monique Bailey could barely speak yesterday as she asked an Allegheny County judge for leniency for killing her live-in boyfriend.
Timothy Lee Williams’ lawyer, Frank C. Walker II, stood next to him, powerless. He had advised Mr. Williams not to testify, but his client didn’t listen. “All I really wanted to do was express myself,” the defendant began, launching into an incoherent diatribe about his life and the circumstances surrounding a Hill District homicide.
Investigators first traced the cause of a fatal crash in Brookline to the brakes, then to the fluid cap, then to the mechanic who left the cap unscrewed. Last week, the mechanic was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter, setting in motion what legal experts say is a remarkable case.
In Pennsylvania, a child under the age of 10 is considered too young to be culpable in a crime. Courts also recognize that youths aged 10 through 17 are different from adults, so their cases automatically are handled in juvenile courts. But not when it comes to murder.
Did Christina Korbe hear the police officers at her door identify themselves? Did she really feel that her life and the lives of her children, ages 10 and 4, were in danger?
After five hours of deliberation, an Allegheny County jury acquitted a Penn Hills man of murder this afternoon.
A juvenile court judge will decide whether Rachel Booth, 13, was justified in the fatal shooting July 30 of her father in their Elizabeth Township home, a Common Pleas judge ruled yesterday.
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Booth could have gone to trial in juvenile court to try to prove that a lifetime of abuse led her to kill her father last summer with a shotgun blast to the face. Instead, the Elizabeth Township girl opted for a less-traumatic solution — a deal that keeps her out of jail.
A former strip club owner convicted of federal tax charges was found Thursday evening in his home after an apparent suicide attempt.