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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1976
Page
9
North Platte residents recall the Kellie family murders trial of Charles Simants in 1975. Juror Angela Pittman describes jury duty, housing, safeguards, and the sanity focus of the case. She notes multiple votes on Simants's sanity, and that punishment decision rested with the judge and court, not jurors.
In a Lincoln County case the jury found Erwin Charles Simants guilty of first degree murder on six counts for the October 18 1973 killings of the Henry Kellie family at Sutherland. The verdict and death sentence were issued April 2 by District Judge Hugh Stuart after weeks of gag order pretrial publicity. The story presents a juror interview with Angeline Pittman mother of four and North Platte resident.
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