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Woman can retract 2004 guilty plea for sledgehammer attack

Last updated Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 3:38pm

CHICAGO -- A judge in Lake County, Ill., issued a rare ruling Tuesday that will allow a woman who is seven years into a 30-year prison sentence to retract her guilty plea for attempted murder.

The judge ordered that Sandra Rogers, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to attacking her ex-husband and his wife with a sledgehammer, return to Lake County for a new trial.

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Clearfield shooting suspect to face trial in May

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 9, 2012 - 11:20pm

FARMINGTON -- An 18-year-old man charged with attempted murder is getting a speedy trial.

"Do you waive your right to a speedy trial?" said Judge Michael G. Allphin on Monday.

"I would like a speedy trial," said Daniel Alonso Garcia, who is being held in Davis County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash-only bail.

Garcia is charged with the discharge of a firearm, with serious bodily injury and gang enhancement, a first-degree felony; attempted murder, a first-degree felony; riot, a third-degree felony; and possession of a dangerous weapon, a class B misdemeanor.

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Wife of shooting suspect not competent for trial

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 9, 2012 - 11:22pm

FARMINGTON -- The woman who police said told her husband to shoot their neighbor has been found incompetent to stand trial.

Meloney Toone Selleneit, 54, is charged with the first-degree felony of criminal solicitation and second-degree felony of purchase, transfer or possession of a firearm by a restricted person.

She will be transferred from Davis County Jail to Utah State Hospital for treatment.

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The doors to Judge Noel Hyde’s courtroom have been locked for the past two hearings for a man accused of killing one officer and attempting to kill seven others.(Standard-Examiner file photo)

Judge on Matthew David Stewart case: Locked court a rarity

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, April 7, 2012 - 9:03pm

OGDEN — It remains to be seen if the courtroom doors will be locked at the May 14 hearing for accused cop-killer Matthew David Stewart.

The doors to 2nd District Judge Noel Hyde’s courtroom have been locked from the outside during the past two hearings for Stewart.

In each case, a Salt Lake City reporter was locked out of the hearing after arriving a bit late.

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Clearfield teen charged with felonies may take plea deal

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 10:49pm

FARMINGTON -- An 18-year-old Clearfield man charged with attempted murder is considering a plea deal, his attorney says.

Daniel Alonso Garcia appeared Monday in 2nd District Court with his attorney, Mark Arrington.

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Attempted murder trial in Elko set for Utah woman

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 5:17pm

ELKO, Nev. -- A 26-year-old Utah woman has been ordered to stand trial for attempted murder and nearly a dozen other felony charges in connection with a multi-state crime spree that included the attempted kidnapping and shooting of a Nevada woman.

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Clearfield man, 18, faces felony charges in shooting

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 10:11pm

FARMINGTON — An 18-year-old man who had been held in Farmington Bay Youth Correction Center has been moved to Davis County Jail and is facing felony charges in a gang-related shooting.

Daniel Alonso Garcia, 18, of Clearfield, was booked in the jail on Wednesday in lieu of a $50,000 bail after a juvenile court judge certified him as an adult.

Garcia was arrested in January by Clearfield police when he was still 17. His birthday was Jan. 28.

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Man charged in Ogden with trying to kill 9-month-old boy

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 2:23pm

OGDEN — Police have arrested Apolinar Flores, 37, on suspicion of aggravated attempted murder and second degree child abuse.

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3rd competency evaluation sought in Centerville shooting over 'telepathic rape'

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 3:57pm

FARMINGTON -- The results of a third evaluation are expected to show whether Michael L. Selleneit is competent to stand trial for shooting his neighbor.

Selleneit, 52, of Centerville, appeared before Judge Thomas L. Kay on Thursday. However, prosecutors could not proceed with the case because of conflicting results from two competency evaluations.

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Doctor gets more time for evaluation of mother accused of smothering son

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 7, 2012 - 11:48pm

OGDEN — One examiner has found a mother charged with the attempted murder of her son competent to stand trial, while another doctor worries the woman may have neurological damage.

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Woman takes plea deal in poisoned smoothie case

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 4:22pm

VERNAL -- A Utah woman has resolved charges accusing her of spiking a 79-year-old man's peach smoothie with antifreeze after taking control of his bank accounts and naming herself as a beneficiary on his life insurance policies.

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Woman faces felony charges in attempted murder case

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 11:56pm

CENTERVILLE -- Meloney Toone Selleneit told her husband "to go for it" just before he shot Tony Pierce on Oct. 30, according to police.

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Psych exams ordered for suspect who said she dreamed about killing son

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 2, 2011 - 7:21am

OGDEN -- Psychological exams were ordered Thursday for a mother who police say had dreams of killing her 10-year-old son, then tried to do it.

Arraigned Tuesday on a charge of first-degree felony attempted murder, Tammy Crane, 38, was back in court Thursday for a status conference where her public defender asked for evaluations to ensure she is competent to stand trial.

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West Haven mom who confessed to trying to smother son arraigned

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 11:18pm

OGDEN -- A mother who police say tried to smother her 10-year-old son after dreaming about it was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of first-degree felony attempted murder.

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(The Associated Press) This undated photo provided by the Summit County Sheriff Department in Ohio shows Richard J. Beasley. By one account, Richard Beasley was a devoted mentor to a 16-year-old high school junior, taking him to church almost weekly, going fishing, playing video games and involving him in volunteer work. But the teenager’s mother paints another picture of Beasley _ that of a man who threatened her son and who once said that he knew where the teen lived and that “I know where your mother lives.” Whatever the nature of the relationship, it apparently ended this month after the teen was charged with attempted murder in a scheme that police say lured applicants for a phony Craigslist job posting into deadly robberies.

Teen in Craigslist case is ‘scared little boy’

Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 8:28am

CALDWELL, Ohio — An Ohio teenager charged with attempted murder in a scheme authorities say lured Craigslist job-seekers into lethal robberies is not a monster, but a “scared little boy,” his mother says.

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