Erie County courts: District judge reinstates homicide charge
Erie Times-News A magisterial district judge has reinstated a criminal homicide charge that Erie police filed against a city man in a fatal shooting in late September and held the charge for court. Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney recently reinstated the homicide charge against 22-year-old Tajh D. Easter that Carney had dismissed following Easter's preliminary hearing in mid-January after the Erie County District Attorney's Office filed a motion asking Carney to reconsider the decision. Easter is charged with 20-year-old Erie resident Duane E. Buckner III in the fatal shooting of 25-...