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Ersland Trial To Be Televised
11-06-2009 02:32 AM MST
| By ###David Rucker/psl ND)
(Oklahoma City, OK) -- A district judge has ruled the first-degree-murder trial of Jerome Ersland can be televised. The decision came after camera and microphone requests of local news outlets. Ersland is the 58-year-old pharmacist accused of going far beyond the state's "Stand Your Ground" law when he shot a would-be armed robber dead as the teen lay seriously wounded on the floor last May. Sixteen-year-old Antwun "Speedy" Parker was felled with a shot to the head. A well-known video shows Ersland changing guns, then shooting Parker five more times. The trial date has not been set.
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