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Murder charges dropped for 1 of 5 men accused in Fort Dodge slayings Share Updated: 1:51 PM CDT Apr 13, 2021 Murder charges dropped for 1 of 5 men accused in Fort Dodge slayings Share Updated: 1:51 PM CDT Apr 13, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript EQUIVALENT OF LYING IN STATE. MURDER CHARGES DISMISSED FOR A FORT DODGE MAN ACCUSED IN A DOUBLE HOMICIDE. DARRELL MURDER AFTER A DEADLY SHOOTING THAT KILLED JAMAEL COX AND TYRONE CUNNINGHAM. JONES AND FIVE OTHERS WERE CHARGED IN THIS CASE. ACCORDING TO THE FORT DODGE MESSENGER, THE STATE HAS NEW INFORMATION. JONES IS N...

The working group's guide has suggestions for how District Attorney's offices could handle complaints and ensure past convictions are correct. (Getty Images) What happens when there's a complaint of a wrongful conviction? If there is a miscarriage of justice, how do prosecutors prevent it from happening again? Many district attorney's offices in Massachusetts have various ways of handling complaints and ensuring past convictions are correct. However, a new guide from a group that has been looking into these questions has put out a series of recommendations to improve and streamline the proces...

BROCKTON — On June 2, 2020, Barbatt Jocelyn scrolled through his Twitter feed to find Brockton was trending worldwide. Upon a closer look, a protest was taking place outside of the Brockton police station. Being in Florida at the time, the Brockton resident decided to virtually put himself where the protesters were, video chatting with a protester who was there outside the police station. The Enterprise, which had photographers and reporters on the ground on June 2, reported that a calm, optimistic mood prevailed at a city-supported rally that afternoon at West Middle School. But tensions...

edecious@messengernews.net Two defendants charged with second-degree murder in the June 2020 Pleasant Valley shooting that killed two men have filed notice of a special defense and a motion for a bill of particulars. James Davis Jr., of Fort Dodge, has notified the court that he will pursue a special self-defense strategy at trial, asserting that he fired his weapon to defend either himself or others at the scene of the shooting. Co-defendant Darrell Jones made the same declaration in January. His fiancee was one of two women injured in the shooting who survived after suffering shots to the f...

'We're In The Fight For Our Lives': Boston Activists Rally On MLK Day Darrell Jones, Sean K. Ellis and Monica Cannon Grant, of Violence in Boston, protest outside the Madison Park High School in Roxbury on MLK Day, January 18, 2021 Tori Bedford / GBH News As Boston and the nation recognized Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday Monday, activist Monica Cannon Grant urged a crowd of 200 people to do more than post a quote on social media. “I know everybody felt real good about their post and their quotes this morning,” Cannon-Grant said, standing on a truck bed outside the Madison P...