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2012 year in review shows Odessa trials and sentences
Odessa county courts closed 2012 with high profile verdicts. James Burwell received life without parole for three counts of capital murder in the Glover killings. Victor White got four life terms and two 20 year terms for a 2010 Odessa compound siege after holding 25 officers at bay. District Attorney Bobby Bland cited a busy second half of the year with numerous capital murder and murder cases and staff turnover across his office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Doyle Burwell
Peggy Glover
Glovers
Fair Oaks Circle
Burwell
Lubbock
Bobby Bland
Dick Glover
Bland
Dean Whalen
Victor Dwayne White
White
West Odessa
Steve McNeill
Ricky Tijerina
Ector County
Mark Donaldson
Donaldson
Bill McCoy
Webb
Bailey
Dustyn Bailey Wright
Odessa American
Wright
Starr Madrid
Christopher Lott Jr
DPS
Walker Lumpkin
Trey Scott Atwater
The
Arty
Midland International Airport