Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, January 28, 1995 TAG: 9501310045
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
EMPORIA - Citing ``evidentiary problems,'' a prosecutor has dropped charges against two Greensville Correctional Center guards indicted in the alleged beatings of handcuffed and shackled inmates.
Greensville County Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Patricia Taylor Watson told a circuit judge Thursday that the charges were being dropped.
Corrections officer Alphonso V. Smith, 30, had been charged with two counts of malicious wounding; officer Larry Bynum Jr., 25, with one count.
Watson said the charges could be brought back later, but that they rarely are in such instances.
- Associated Press
N.Y. judge orders suspect back to Va.
NEW YORK - A judge on Friday ordered Christopher Goins returned to Virginia on Feb. 7 to face five murder charges.
State Supreme Court Justice Herbert Adlerberg denied the Legal Aid Society's request to release Goins and to hold a more detailed hearing on his case.
Goins, 20, and companion Monique Littlejohn were captured Nov. 17 in New York after he was shown on the ``America's Most Wanted'' television show.
A hearing for Littlejohn's extradition on drug charges was held Thursday. She is expected to return to Virginia with Goins.
Authorities said they had been on the run since Oct. 14, when Goins allegedly shot seven people in a Richmond housing complex. Five people died. Two young girls survived, although one of them lost the unborn child she was carrying. Relatives said Goins had impregnated the 14-year-old girl.
- Associated Press
Pair plead guilty in child prostitution
ALEXANDRIA - A Springfield man and a District of Columbia woman have pleaded guilty to child prostitution charges in a scheme in which she provided him with two girls, ages 7 and 8.
In court papers, John Walling, 59, admitted that he engaged in sexual activity with both girls. Donna Jones, 29, admitted providing the girls to him
- Associated Press
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