HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the case of the husband of a former sheriff's deputy convicted of murder for a deadly confrontation (all times local):
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A prosecutor says the husband of a former sheriff's deputy was given an appropriate sentence of 25 years in prison for the strangulation death of a man the couple confronted outside a Houston-area restaurant.
HOUSTON (AP) — The husband of a former sheriff's deputy was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday for the strangulation death of a man the couple confronted outside a Houston-area restaurant.
Prosecutors argued Terry Thompson wanted to kill 24-year-old John Hernandez and kept him in a chokehold even when he stopped resisting after Thompson confronted Hernandez about urinating in the parking lot of a Denny's restaurant in May 2017.
HOUSTON (AP) — A jury is to begin deliberations on sentencing for a man convicted in the strangulation death of a man whom he and his wife, a sheriff's deputy, confronted outside a Houston-area restaurant.
Deliberations are to begin Wednesday in Terry Thompson's sentencing after both sides rested their cases Tuesday. He faces up to life in prison for his conviction Monday of killing 24-year-old John Hernandez in May 2017.
HOUSTON (AP) — A jury on Monday convicted the husband of a former sheriff's deputy of murder for the strangulation death of a man the couple confronted outside a Houston-area restaurant.
Terry Thompson's trial will move to its punishment phase on Tuesday, and attorneys will present additional testimony over several days before jurors deliberate a sentence. Thompson faces up to life in prison.
HOUSTON (AP) — The husband of a former sheriff's deputy charged in the strangulation death of a man he and his wife confronted outside a Houston-area restaurant wanted to kill the man and kept him in a chokehold after he stopped resisting, prosecutors told jurors Friday before they began deliberations.
HOUSTON (AP) — The husband of a former sheriff's deputy is standing trial again on a murder charge in the strangling of a man he and his wife confronted outside a Houston-area restaurant.
Terry Thompson is charged in the killing of 24-year-old John Hernandez, who died when Thompson put him in a chokehold after finding him urinating outside a Denny's restaurant in Crosby in 2017. Thompson's first trial in June ended in a mistrial. His retrial began Tuesday.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has declared a mistrial in the trial of a former deputy's husband charged in the death of a man he and his wife confronted outside a restaurant.
The Houston Chronicle reports District Judge Kelli Johnson declared the mistrial in Terry Thompson's case Saturday after jurors deliberated more than 26 hours over three days.
HOUSTON (AP) — The husband of a former sheriff's deputy was the aggressor during a deadly confrontation in which he held another man in a chokehold for as long as 15 minutes outside a Houston-area restaurant, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on a Texas sheriff's deputy and her husband being indicted on murder charges in the death of a man they restrained (all times local):
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The family of a man who died after a late-night confrontation with a Texas sheriff's deputy and her husband has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the couple that's asking for at least $1 million in damages.
HOUSTON (AP) — Dozens of protesters chased after a Houston-area sheriff's deputy and her husband following their court appearance Tuesday on murder charges in the death of a man they confronted outside a restaurant.
At one point, the protesters surrounded the car the couple entered outside the courthouse and temporarily blocked it from driving off.
HOUSTON (AP) — The actions of Texas deputies who looked into the death of a Houston man following his confrontation with an off-duty deputy and her husband will be reviewed as part of an internal affairs probe following complaints by the victim's family that the investigation was mishandled, authorities announced on Friday.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on a Texas sheriff's deputy and her husband being indicted on murder charges in the death of a man they restrained during a late night confrontation while she was off duty (all times local):
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The attorney for a Houston-area sheriff's deputy who has been indicted for murder along with her husband following a late night confrontation with a man says the couple had no intention of hurting the person.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on a Texas sheriff's deputy and her husband being indicted on murder charges in the death of a man they restrained during a late night confrontation outside of a Houston-area restaurant (all times local):
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A Texas sheriff's deputy and her husband have turned themselves in to authorities after they were indicted on murder charges in the death of a man they struggled with.
When a suicidal man released dozens of lions, tigers and bears from his Ohio farm in 2011, the state's rules on exotic animals were among the weakest in the nation.
No one had any idea how many exotic pets were living in backyard cages and barns across the state. New restrictions took effect within a year.
Tuesday marks five years since Terry Thompson released his 50 animals before he killed himself. Authorities in Zanesville killed nearly all of the animals out of fear for public safety.