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Article: STEWART TRIAL TO HEAR STATEMENTS ON KILLING WORDS OF CELLMATE AND DEAD TEENAGER ARE ACCEPTABLE AS EVIDENCE, JUDGE RULES.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 26, 1996
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Byline: JUNE ARNEY, STAFF WRITER
NORFOLK -- Statements by a jail informant and a co-defendant whose shooting death was allegedly orchestrated by Royale Stewart from his jail cell will be allowed as evidence in Stewart's capital murder trial, a judge ruled Monday.
Circuit Judge John E. Clarkson said that police had not stepped over the line in obtaining information from an inmate jailed in the same cell block with Stewart, 17, during May and June of 1995.
Joseph Francis testified that he called detectives after fellow inmate Stewart started telling him details of the shooting death of Kevin Gallegos outside a 7-Eleven on Feb. 10, 1995. Francis ...