Three days in court and our outlook is a little jaundiced.
In less than 30 minutes this evening a jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of a Roanoke Rapids minister charged with a count of indecent liberties with a child.
The state rested its case today and the defense called no witnesses in the trial of a Roanoke Rapids minister charged with indecent liberties with a minor.
Testimony today tied the indecent liberties with a minor count against a Roanoke Rapids minister to a kiss he reportedly gave the victim when she was 15 which extended from her collarbone to earlobe.
Eight men and four women will begin hearing evidence Tuesday in the case of a Roanoke Rapids minister charged with indecent liberties with a minor.
The state cannot try William Meinsen, a Roanoke Rapids minister facing sex offense counts against a minor, on a recently filed misdemeanor charge, but may use the count as a bargaining chip for a plea offer if he agrees to accept it.
The attorney representing a minister facing sex offense counts with a minor filed a motion to have a recently lodged misdemeanor count against his client dismissed.
Tentatively scheduled to appear in court next month, a Roanoke Rapids minister now faces an additional count of misdemeanor sexual battery after a Halifax County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment.
Proceedings in the case of William Meinsen, a minister charged with indecent liberties with a child, now head to Halifax County Superior Court after District Court Judge Teresa Robinson Freeman found probable cause to move the matter up.
Halifax County District Court Judge Teresa Robinson Freeman will decide Friday whether there is enough evidence from a probable cause hearing today to send an indecent liberties count against a Roanoke Rapids minister to superior court.
