{"id":427744,"date":"2015-12-10T02:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427744"},"modified":"2015-12-11T02:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T08:03:03","slug":"april-sentencing-trial-set-for-inspiration-for-film-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427744","title":{"rendered":"April Sentencing Trial Set for Inspiration for Film &#8220;Bernie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/BernieLNJ_1445431514032_5258418_ver1.0.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-411112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/BernieLNJ_1445431514032_5258418_ver1.0-150x150.png\" alt=\"BernieLNJ_1445431514032_5258418_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-411112\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCARTHAGE (AP\/STAFF) &#8211; An East Texas judge has set an April 1 start for the sentencing trial for a man whose 1999 murder conviction inspired the dark comedy &#8220;Bernie.&#8221; Special Judge Diane DeVasto of Tyler set the date at a hearing in Carthage Wednesday after attorneys for Bernie Tiede requested a delay. DeVasto said no more delays will be granted. DeVasto granted a defense motion in October to move the trial from Carthage to Rusk in Henderson County, 27 miles to the west, to assure an impartial jury. Tiede faces a new sentencing for his conviction of murder in the death of wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent for her fortune. Her body was found in 1997 in her freezer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARTHAGE (AP\/STAFF) &#8211; An East Texas judge has set an April 1 start for the sentencing trial for a man whose 1999 murder conviction inspired the dark comedy &#8220;Bernie.&#8221; Special Judge Diane DeVasto of Tyler set the date at a hearing in Carthage Wednesday after attorneys for Bernie Tiede requested a delay. DeVasto said no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April Sentencing Trial Set for Inspiration for Film &#8220;Bernie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":411112,"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-427744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 08:10:19","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\/427744","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=427744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427872,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427744\/revisions\/427872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/411112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}