Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 11, 1995 TAG: 9503130032
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
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CHARLOTTESVILLE - Best-selling novelist John Grisham has a new client in mind: the Piedmont Little League Baseball Association.
Grisham and his wife, Renee, have offered to finance construction of a baseball complex in southern Albemarle County so the Piedmont Little League will be more accessible to children who live in the area, says the Grishams' lawyer, Richard E. Carter.
Grisham, who has a home in the county, has reserved a 109-acre site for the proposed Cove Creek Park.
- Associated Press
Stripper a no-show, but charge dismissed
WOODSTOCK - A stripper at the Shenandoah County Fair didn't show up Friday in General District Court, but an obscenity charge against the operator of her show was dismissed.
Judge Norman Morrison said there was not enough evidence to support the charge that show operator Gary Housel instructed dancer Deanna Williams to touch patrons or to grab the head of one and pull it toward her. Morrison granted a defense motion to throw out the charge.
State obscenity charges against Housel, 43, of Glenville, Pa., and the four dancers from his ``Las Vegas Show'' that performs annually on the county fair midway were dropped in September 1994. The charge heard Friday was based on a Woodstock town ordinance, and could have carried a penalty of one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
- Associated Press
Student found guilty of murder, wounding
NORFOLK - Shamont Burrell, a former Norfolk State University student accused of murdering one student and wounding a second over campus rivalries, was convicted of all charges Friday.
The former freshman shook his head slowly as the judge read each verdict: guilty of first-degree murder, malicious wounding, conspiracy and two firearm counts.
For four days, Burrell, 19, professed his innocence.
But after 2 1/2 hours of deliberations, the jury convicted Burrell in the slayings of Gerard Edwards and Ronald Richardson and recommended a sentence of 68 years in prison.
- Associated Press\ note: a different version of the Virginia Briefs ran in the State edition.
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