{"id":205614,"date":"2012-08-08T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=205614"},"modified":"2012-08-09T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T17:24:49","slug":"austin-lawyer-considers-appeal-for-bernie-inmate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=205614","title":{"rendered":"Austin Lawyer Considers Appeal for &#8220;Bernie&#8221; Inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=205615\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-205615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/Jodi-Callaway-Cole-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jodi Callaway Cole\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-205615\" \/><\/a>DALLAS (AP) \u2013 An Austin lawyer has taken up the case of an ex-funeral home director convicted in a 1996 killing featured in the movie \u201cBernie.\u201d The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday that attorney Jodi Callaway Cole, shown here, has met with director Richard Linklater of Austin. \u201cBernie,\u201d starring Jack Black as Bernhardt Tiede II, was released this year. Tiede is serving life in prison for the fatal shooting of 81-year-old Marjorie Nugent of Carthage. The wealthy widow, portrayed by Shirley MacLaine, was found dead in a freezer at her home. Cole says she told Linklater that the movie raised issues for a possible appeal. Cole, who\u2019s met with Tiede, declined to elaborate or say who hired her. Tiede on Wednesday was in the Telford Unit. He\u2019s not eligible for parole until 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (AP) \u2013 An Austin lawyer has taken up the case of an ex-funeral home director convicted in a 1996 killing featured in the movie \u201cBernie.\u201d The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday that attorney Jodi Callaway Cole, shown here, has met with director Richard Linklater of Austin. \u201cBernie,\u201d starring Jack Black as Bernhardt Tiede II, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=205614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Austin Lawyer Considers Appeal for &#8220;Bernie&#8221; Inmate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:45:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205724,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205614\/revisions\/205724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}