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Article: Flippo should stay in jail, judge says
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- Charleston Gazette
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- June 16, 2001
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FAYETTEVILLE - Even if no one had ever discovered a briefcase
with pictures the Rev. James Flippo had taken of his friend, jurors
would still have concluded that there was enough evidence to find
Flippo guilty of the murder of his wife, a circuit judge concluded
Friday.
The Nitro minister appealed his guilty verdict all the way to the
U.S. Supreme Court, and in 1999, the high court sent the case back
to Fayette County Circuit Court because Judge John Hatcher had
denied a defense motion to suppress evidence police obtained from
Flippo's briefcase without a warrant.
Hatcher originally allowed the pictures to become part of the
evidence for several reasons. Flippo ...