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Questioning leads to mistrial
Found: 1 Day 12 Hours 23 Minutes ago
Orlando Sentinel - A judge put an abrupt end to a death-penalty trial in Lake County, declaring a mistrial Thursday in the state's case against Dante Hall, one of twin Orlando brothers charged with a double homicide in Eustis. Lake Circuit Judge T. Michael Johnson sided with Hall's lawyers, Michael Graves and John Spivey, who argued that questions by Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross violated Hall's constitutional right against self-incrimination. Gross was quizzing Hall's girlfriend, Kim Jones, about a meeting with the prosecutor at the State Attorney's Office in Tavares in February 2007. She said Hall had accompanied her to the Lake County Judicial Complex because he had not yet been charged in the September 2006 killings of Kison Evans, 32, of Tavares and Anthony Bernard Blunt, 35, of Mount Dora. Gross then asked her if, at that meeting, he had extended an invitation to Hall to speak with him, too. Jones confirmed that the prosecutor had made the offer but that Hall had declined -- an answer that triggered the defense team's demand for a mistrial. The basis: Because of the defendant's Fifth Amendment right, the jury should not have known that Hall had a chance to talk and declined -- a fact that could be considered incriminating. "It was my mistake," Gross said. "I think the judge did the right thing." A new trial date has not been set for Hall, whose identical twin, Donte Hall, is scheduled to be tried Sept. 29 on the same charges. The brothers, 24, are accused of plotting a home invasion of a house party that left two men dead and two others critically injured nearly two years ago. Eustis police say the Halls hoped to take cash, jewelry and other valuables from men who hired Donte Hall's girlfriend and two other women to perform at the party. The trial started Tuesday with jury selection....
See Hannah Montana 3D concert film
Found: 1 Day 12 Hours 23 Minutes ago
Orlando Sentinel - The Minneola Recreation Department will host Minneola Gym Flix today on a large screen at the City Hall gymnasium, 800 N. U.S. Highway 27....
Kooky crimes give way to random, vicious attacks - on meaner streets
Found: 1 Day 12 Hours 24 Minutes ago
Orlando Sentinel - It's pretty hard to ignore a news story about a half-naked stripper in high heels at a party reciting the 23rd Psalm while bullets whiz by her head....
Two South Florida women charged with shoplifting
Found: 1 Day 16 Hours 39 Minutes ago
TC Palm - Two South Florida women ? one of whom is pregnant ? were stopped by the Indian River County Sheriff?s Office on Wednesday during an attempt to steal thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from a department store at the Indian River Mall, according to reports.
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Two women - one pregnant - accused of shoplifting in Indian River ...
Found: 2 Days 14 Minutes ago
TC Palm - Ashley Jackson, 25, of Riviera Beach, and Skylar Pittman, 25, of Boynton Beach, were charged with felony retail theft and resisting a merchant for the incident that happened at 1:33 p.m. at Sears, their arrest affidavits said.
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Two women - one pregnant - caught shoplifting in Indian River County
Found: 2 Days 2 Hours 59 Minutes ago
TC Palm - Ashley Jackson, 25, of Riviera Beach, and Skylar Pittman, 25, of Boynton Beach, were charged with felony retail theft and resisting a merchant for the incident that happened at 1:33 p.m. at Sears, their arrest affidavits said.
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Lake County offers flu shots
Found: 2 Days 10 Hours 42 Minutes ago
Orlando Sentinel - The Lake County Health Department has partnered with VaxCare Corp. to offer flu-shot clinics in the coming weeks. Outreach clinics will offer pneumonia shots, too....
Victim's mother wails at trial
Found: 2 Days 10 Hours 42 Minutes ago
Orlando Sentinel - The mother of Kison Evans, one of two men slain by a spray of bullets inside a Eustis party house, wailed inconsolably Wednesday at testimony describing her son's death, prompting defense lawyers to seek a mistrial. Circuit Judge T. Michael Johnson halted proceedings, warned spectators and ordered jurors to disregard any emotional outbursts from the audience but overruled the objections of lawyers for Dante Hall, 23, of Orlando. Lawyers Michael Graves and John Spivey argued that the hysterics could prejudice jurors listening to the state's case against Hall, who could face death if convicted in the killings of Evans, 32, and Anthony Bernard Blunt, 35, of Mount Dora. Dante Hall and his identical twin, Donte Hall, are accused of orchestrating an armed home invasion of a party on Gottsche Street in Eustis where Donte Hall's girlfriend and two friends had been hired to entertain men. Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross told jurors he might not be able to show that Dante Hall fired bullets that killed Evans or Blunt or critically wounded Willie "Jay" Shelton or Joshua Daniels about 2 a.m. Sept. 9, 2006. But Dante Hall, his twin and two others share responsibility for the crime they helped plan, Gross said....
High school golf: Sept. 3 matches
Found: 2 Days 14 Hours 26 Minutes ago
TC Palm - Boys, girls roundup
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Get in touch with the environment
Found: 3 Days 10 Hours 2 Minutes ago
Orlando Sentinel - Trout Lake Nature Center in Eustis will present a "Naturalist Field Day" from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday....
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