I went to the Murder Trial of Karen Styles !!! This is Not the Truth of What Really Happened To the STYLES FAMILY FOR WHAT THEY HAD TO ENDURE WITH AN ARROGANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY WHO VIOLATED MIRANDA RIGHTS ON PURPOSE BECAUSE HE WAS BUSY HUNTING!!!!!!! THIS IS A JOKE OF A STORY ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES - THE RAG !!!! Another high-profile murder case generated high-profile criticism of Moores office. On Halloween day, 1994, 22-year-old Karen Styles went for a run in the Bent Creek Recreation Area of Pisgah National Forest. Her body was found nearly a month later, duct-taped to a tree, a bullet wound to her head. Karen Styles was 22 when she was murdered in October Karen Styles was 22 when she was murdered in October 1994. (Photo: Special to the Citizen-Times) Candler dishwasher Richard Allen Jackson was arrested. During questioning, former Sheriff Bobby Medford pressed Jackson for information, and Jackson said, I think I need a lawyer present. Medford stopped the questioning and consulted with assistant district attorney Dreher via telephone. She called Moore, who was hunting down east and had to go up in a tree stand to get reception on his cell phone. Richard Allen Jackson enters Buncombe County Superior Richard Allen Jackson enters Buncombe County Superior Court in 1995 for a pre-trial hearing. (Photo: John Coutlakis/Citizen-Times photo) They concurred that a U.S. Supreme Court case which had guided law officers for years would allow questioning to continue. Medford continued the interrogation, and Jackson confessed. The confession played a key role in Jacksons conviction, which landed him on death row. But it also spawned a legal challenge. Jackson remained on North Carolinas death row from 1995-1998, when the N.C. Supreme Court overturned his first conviction and ordered a new trial. Before a second death-penalty trial, he took a plea deal for a 25-year sentence, avoiding death row. But the federal government stepped in, invoking a law against using a firearm on federal property to commit violence, in this case, kidnapping, rape and murder. The feds secured a death sentence.
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