{"id":338310,"date":"2015-03-31T17:28:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T22:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=338310"},"modified":"2015-04-01T17:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T22:15:02","slug":"judge-to-consider-new-prosecutor-for-bernie-tiede-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=338310","title":{"rendered":"Judge Replaces Prosecutor for Bernie Tiede Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Bernie-Tiede.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Bernie-Tiede-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie Tiede\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-338311\" \/><\/a>CARTHAGE (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A judge has appointed a special prosecutor to handle the retrial of the man whose murder conviction inspired the dark comedy &#8220;Bernie.&#8221; Judge Diane DeVasto issued the decision Tuesday, a day after Panola County District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson asked that he and his staff be removed from the case because he was now a witness. DeVasto granted the request and appointed Assistant State Attorney General Adrienne McFarland to the retrial. Tiede was convicted of killing wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent and storing her body in a freezer. He was released from prison after a judge agreed to reduce his sentence, and Davidson agreed that the former mortician was wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment. DeVasto also canceled a pre-trial hearing Tuesday. No new hearings or trial dates have been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARTHAGE (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A judge has appointed a special prosecutor to handle the retrial of the man whose murder conviction inspired the dark comedy &#8220;Bernie.&#8221; Judge Diane DeVasto issued the decision Tuesday, a day after Panola County District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson asked that he and his staff be removed from the case because he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=338310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge Replaces Prosecutor for Bernie Tiede Case<\/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-338310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 18:38:41","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\/338310","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=338310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338742,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338310\/revisions\/338742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}