Lori Pilger
Reporter at Lincoln Journal Star
A reporter at the Lincoln Journal Star covering state and federal courts in Lancaster County, Nebraska.
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4 days ago |
journalstar.com | Lori Pilger
After two weeks of evidence, the jury at Joesef Barraza's murder trial began deliberations late Monday morning after hearing closing arguments. One side called Carly Schaaf's death a murder. The other contends her death may have been an accidental overdose or suicide. The 23-year-old Lincoln woman's body was found at Pawnee Lake three weeks after she was reported missing in 2021. Schaaf’s disappearance on May 17, 2021 made headlines as Lincoln police sought help to find her.
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1 week ago |
yorknewstimes.com | Lori Pilger
The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the conviction and sentence for Felipe Gonzalez Vazquez, who as a 17-year-old fatally shot a Lincoln police officer during an escape attempt in 2020. "We conclude that all of Vazquez’s assignments of error lack merit and that his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel either lack merit, were not raised with sufficient specificity, or cannot be resolved on direct appeal," Justice Stephanie Stacy wrote in an 81-page decision.
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1 week ago |
kearneyhub.com | Lori Pilger
The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the conviction and sentence for Felipe Gonzalez Vazquez, who as a 17-year-old fatally shot a Lincoln police officer during an escape attempt in 2020. "We conclude that all of Vazquez’s assignments of error lack merit and that his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel either lack merit, were not raised with sufficient specificity, or cannot be resolved on direct appeal," Justice Stephanie Stacy wrote in an 81-page decision.
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1 week ago |
journalstar.com | Lori Pilger
At the end of two weeks of trial, the state's final witness, an Omaha pathologist, explained what led to the death of Carly Schaaf, the 23-year-old found dead at Pawnee Lake three weeks after she was reported missing in 2021. "What was your determination of Ms. Schaaf's cause of death?" Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Ryan Brown asked Dr. Jeremy Berg on day nine of Joesef Barraza's murder trial.
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1 week ago |
kearneyhub.com | Lori Pilger
A 28-year-old Lincoln woman told jurors this week how one summer day in 2020 she and a friend went to party at Joesef Barraza's before things all went dark. She said the guy she'd known from high school and a fast-food job who she sometimes smoked weed and meth with brought her and a girlfriend rum-mixed drinks from the kitchen that afternoon, Aug. 30, 2020. She woke up naked two days later.
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