{"id":347482,"date":"2015-04-25T07:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T12:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=347482"},"modified":"2015-04-27T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:33:06","slug":"new-prosecutor-named-in-bernie-tiede-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=347482","title":{"rendered":"New Prosecutor Named in Bernie Tiede Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/01\/Bernie-Tiede.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/01\/Bernie-Tiede-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie Tiede\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-322357\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8212; A state prosecutor who helped secure convictions in the Kilgore Kentucky Fried Chicken murders is one of two new prosecutors appointed in the Bernie Tiede case. According to the Longview News-Journal, documents from the Panola County District Clerk&#8217;s Office show Texas Assistant Attorney General Lisa Tanner, who worked on the KFC case, will take over Tiede&#8217;s case from Panola County District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson. Jane Starnes, another Texas assistant attorney general, also will be a prosecutor in the case. Starnes helped convict Eddie Ray Routh earlier this year in Stephenville in the death of &#8220;American Sniper&#8221; Chris Kyle.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Davidson filed a motion to recuse himself in March, saying he had become a witness in Tiede&#8217;s case &#8220;through no fault of my own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tiede faces a new sentencing trial in the 1997 shooting death of 81-year-old Carthage widow Marjorie Nugent.<\/p>\n<p>A life sentence Tiede began in 1999 was vacated in May when Davidson agreed with Tiede&#8217;s defense counsel that newly revealed memories of childhood sexual abuse could have affected his first trial in 1999. Tiede also still faces a felony theft indictment accusing him of stealing millions from Nugent. The fate of that indictment could be decided at a pre-trial hearing for which no date has been set. It originally was scheduled March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; A state prosecutor who helped secure convictions in the Kilgore Kentucky Fried Chicken murders is one of two new prosecutors appointed in the Bernie Tiede case. According to the Longview News-Journal, documents from the Panola County District Clerk&#8217;s Office show Texas Assistant Attorney General Lisa Tanner, who worked on the KFC case, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=347482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Prosecutor Named in 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-347482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 02:10:36","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\/347482","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=347482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347483,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347482\/revisions\/347483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}