Paul bethune trial

He's in really good spirits, very healthy and excited about having the opportunity to explain himself to the world. Harris said prosecutors were expected to demand a jail sentence of between two and a half and three years.

He feels that whatever sentence he gets, it will have been worth it. He has no regrets. A verdict is expected on 10 June, with sentencing up to four weeks later, Harris said.

Bethune, a year-old New Zealander, was arrested after jumping on to the Shonan Maru 2 in February to protest against the sinking the previous month of the Ady Gil, Sea Shepherd's powerboat. The boat, which Bethune skippered, was sliced in two during a collision with the Japanese vessel and later sank. Sea Shepherd had been using the Ady Gil to pursue and harass the whaling fleet during its annual "research" whaling expedition to the Antarctic.

The group regards Bethune as a political prisoner. Read the obituary. Police said Rochelle Paul, 36, of the same address, confessed and is facing trial on charges of murder and felonious assault. Tabler, 27, of Akron , was found with gunshot wounds at a home in the block of Sherman Street in University Park about a.

Police said there had been a large gathering at the home before the shooting. Akron resident Savanna Brice, 19, is charged with murder. Davis Sr. Police said there had been a report of a disturbance before the shooting.

Officers found him unresponsive with a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Princess Fitzgerald, 33, also of Akron, was arrested in Columbus and charged with murder. Ely, 30, of Akron , was found dead from a gunshot wound Feb. Detectives believe one or more people shot at Ely, but the case remains under investigation. Leeric Campbell, 19, and Jaemeir Gooden, 19, both of Akron, were arrested. Campbell was charged with aggravated murder and Gooden was charged with complicity to murder, both first-degree felonies.

Rollins, 43, of Green , was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds Feb. She was a mother of three who had been visiting a friend in Akron. Behune, 27, of Akron , was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds about p. Police said Osiris Khalfani, 20, of Akron, approached Bethune and fired multiple shots before fleeing. Khalfani was arrested in Columbus and charged with murder. He died at a hospital. Investigators believe he was shot about p.

A year-old girl who police said was his girlfriend is charged with his murder. Read his obituary. Mosansky, 48, of Akron , was found dead about 1 a. Police found him while investigating a missing person's call. His body had been burned. George Bilbrey, 44, of Akron, was charged with murder and arson. He died at a hospital a little before midnight. Detectives determined the shooting occurred after an altercation between Stevens and an unknown person. Police said the shooter fled in a silver SUV.

Lyons, 28, of Euclid , was found with gunshot wounds March 17 outside a residence in the block of Valdes Avenue in West Akron.

He was taken to a hospital where he died about p. He was a father of five. He died the next day at Summa Akron City Hospital. Police said Willie James, 43, assaulted and stabbed Slack following an argument. James was arrested and charged with felonious assault that night. He was taken to a hospital about p.

Another teenager was found a short distance away with nonlife-threatening wounds. Police said the two youths were outside a home on Neptune Avenue when two men drove by in a white car and began shooting. Michael J. Sibley, 18, is charged with complicity to commit aggravated murder. Felding, 27, of Akron , was found about a. He died April Jones, 27, of Akron , was found dead about 2 a. The word knowingly could have confused jurors, he said. You send your son off to college and you never expect to receive a call like that.

Lovely Varughese, who has fought a four-year battle to gain justice for her son, told India-West expressed frustration over the new development. Bethune, who had picked up Varughese on the side of the road as he was walking home from a party, was the last person to see the victim alive. The court should have at least heard our appeal. Varughese said she wants the FBI to investigate what might have happened in the three months after Bethune was convicted of murder and until Judge Clarke vacated the verdict.

She also wants the Justice Department to investigate a possible hate crime.