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Alan J. Keays

Vermont

Criminal Justice Reporter at VTDigger

Journalist at https://t.co/RpyPS4Khf4 .Previously, Portsmouth Herald

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  • ‘Why did you shoot me?’: Witness reports hearing slain Swanton man ask his accused killer  - VTDigger

    3 days ago | vtdigger.org | Alan J. Keays

    A Swanton man is facing a murder charge for allegedly fatally shooting another man who had recently been staying in the same home as he was early Saturday morning. Mitchal Shedrick, 52, pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder Monday during his arraignment hearing in Franklin County Superior criminal court in St. Albans. The felony offense, according to charging documents, stems from the shooting death of 37-year-old Joshua Many during an argument.

  • Vermont judge rules in VTDigger’s favor, orders release of police video and audio of prosecutor’s arrest

    6 days ago | vtdigger.org | Alan J. Keays

    A Vermont judge has sided with VTDigger and ordered the Vermont Department of Public Safety to release state police audio and video recordings of the arrest more than a year ago of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos on a drunken driving charge. Judge Timothy Tomasi, presiding in Washington County Superior civil court in Montpelier, where the lawsuit seeking the recordings was filed, issued the decision Friday.

  • Colchester man pleads not guilty to first-degree murder in stabbing death of woman

    6 days ago | vtdigger.org | Alan J. Keays

    A Colchester man is facing a charge of first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing to death a woman on Thursday afternoon who, he told police, he had met online earlier in the day. Elijah Compagna, 27, pleaded not guilty late Friday morning to the murder charge during his arraignment in Chittenden County Superior criminal court in Burlington.

  • Vermont Supreme Court upholds convictions for Rutland child care provider in baby’s death

    1 week ago | vtdigger.org | Alan J. Keays

    The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of a former Rutland child care provider found guilty on charges of involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to a child in the death of a 6-month-old baby more than six years ago. Stacey Vaillancourt, 59, was charged in 2019 with giving a fatal amount of a sedative found in over-the-counter antihistamines to Harper Rose Briar, who was in her care.

  • New York appeals court holds up detained Tufts student’s return to Vermont for hearing

    2 weeks ago | vnews.com | Alan J. Keays

    A federal court has paused the transfer of detained Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana to a facility in Vermont. Judge William K. Sessions III, sitting in federal court in Burlington, had issued a ruling earlier this month for Öztürk, who is Turkish and was in the United States on a student visa, to be transferred back to a Vermont facility by May 1 ahead of a later bail hearing.

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