{"id":599043,"date":"2017-03-22T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=599043"},"modified":"2017-03-23T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:42:00","slug":"subject-of-film-bernie-appeals-lengthy-sentence-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=599043","title":{"rendered":"Subject of Film &#8220;Bernie&#8221; Appeals Lengthy Sentence for Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/BernieLNJ_1466083082210_9022552_ver1.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/BernieLNJ_1466083082210_9022552_ver1.0-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-502676\" \/><\/a>TEXARKANA (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A former Texas mortician whose legal issues were the subject of the 2011 film &#8220;Bernie&#8221; is appealing his sentence of 99 years to life in prison in the killing of a wealthy widow. Bernie Tiede was resentenced last year for his 1999 murder conviction in the fatal shooting of Marjorie Nugent, 81, whose body was found in his freezer. In a petition filed Tuesday with the Sixth Texas Court of Appeals, Tiede&#8217;s attorneys argue that his 1997 indictment was tainted by a biased grand juror and that the jury that sentenced him was &#8220;repeatedly exposed to outside influence&#8221; in the form of non-case-related publicity, including the film in which he was played by actor Jack Black. They also say a previous plea agreement calling for a 20-year prison system was breached. Prosecutors say Tiede stole millions of dollars from Nugent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A former Texas mortician whose legal issues were the subject of the 2011 film &#8220;Bernie&#8221; is appealing his sentence of 99 years to life in prison in the killing of a wealthy widow. Bernie Tiede was resentenced last year for his 1999 murder conviction in the fatal shooting of Marjorie Nugent, 81, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=599043\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Subject of Film &#8220;Bernie&#8221; Appeals Lengthy Sentence for Murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":502676,"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-599043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 04:47:05","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\/599043","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=599043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599209,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599043\/revisions\/599209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/502676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}