{"id":472919,"date":"2016-04-07T02:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T07:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472919"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:38:43","slug":"bernie-tiede-jury-selection-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472919","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing Trial Continues in Case that Inspired Film &#8216;Bernie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/d4e80e4789201090dd782e913a00063c.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-472923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/d4e80e4789201090dd782e913a00063c-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"d4e80e4789201090dd782e913a00063c\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-472923\" \/><\/a>HENDERSON (AP) &#8211; The re-sentencing trial continues for the East Texas mortician whose murder case inspired the dark comedy movie &#8220;Bernie.&#8221; Bernie Tiede was convicted in 1999 of killing Marjorie Nugent, a widow more than 40 years his senior whom he befriended in Carthage. Tiede was sentenced to life in prison but freed after a prosecutor said he believed Tiede deserved a reduced prison sentence because of abuse he suffered as a child. Jurors could now send him back to prison or let him remain free. According to The Dallas Morning News, prosecutor Lisa Tanner argued Wednesday that Tiede &#8220;was stealing Marjorie Nugent blind, and he was doing it cleverly.&#8221; But defense attorney Mike DeGeurin said Nugent controlled Tiede and had a &#8220;mean streak and an abusive streak.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON (AP) &#8211; The re-sentencing trial continues for the East Texas mortician whose murder case inspired the dark comedy movie &#8220;Bernie.&#8221; Bernie Tiede was convicted in 1999 of killing Marjorie Nugent, a widow more than 40 years his senior whom he befriended in Carthage. Tiede was sentenced to life in prison but freed after a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472919\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sentencing Trial Continues in Case that Inspired Film &#8216;Bernie&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":472923,"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-472919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 20:22:07","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\/472919","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=472919"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473920,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472919\/revisions\/473920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/472923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}