{"id":476978,"date":"2016-04-14T18:31:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T23:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=476978"},"modified":"2016-04-15T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T23:21:18","slug":"state-rests-defense-begins-case-in-tiede-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=476978","title":{"rendered":"State Rests, Defense Begins Case in Tiede Trial"},"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 (Staff\/AP) &#8212; Jurors who will hold Bernie Tiede&#8217;s fate in their hands soon will have to decide who was scamming whom after hearing evidence from his five-year relationship with Marjorie Nugent.  KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the state rested its case at 2:24 p.m. Thursday in Tiede&#8217;s resentencing trial in Henderson.  That left time for Tiede&#8217;s defense to begin building its case before court adjourned at 4:40 p.m. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Tiede was convicted in 1999 of killing Nugent, a widow more than 40 years his senior whom he befriended in Carthage. On Thursday, a state&#8217;s witness testified the relationship Tiede struck up with the oil widow netted the funeral director who buried her husband some $3.6 million.  Lead defender Mike DeGeurin is expected to lay a scenario, in testimony stretching into next week, in which the widow was playing fast and loose with that money \u00e2\u20ac\u201d using his client as her dupe.<\/p>\n<p>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. Tiede&#8217;s case inspired the dark comedy movie &#8220;Bernie.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON (Staff\/AP) &#8212; Jurors who will hold Bernie Tiede&#8217;s fate in their hands soon will have to decide who was scamming whom after hearing evidence from his five-year relationship with Marjorie Nugent. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the state rested its case at 2:24 p.m. Thursday in Tiede&#8217;s resentencing trial in Henderson. That left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=476978\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State Rests, Defense Begins Case in Tiede Trial<\/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-476978","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 16:09:43","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\/476978","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=476978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476980,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476978\/revisions\/476980"}],"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=476978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}