Court briefs
Hearing set for Pelfree in double murder case
A final pretrial hearing has been set for Jerry Pelfree, who's accused of killing two men and hiding their bodies in barrels on his rural Monroe County property. Pelfree has pleaded not guilty to the charges he killed Douglas Allen Brown and Everett Lynn Shaw, and his attorney has said his client is innocent. His case is set to go to trial July 14, while a final pretrial hearing in the case is set at 3:30 p.m. May 8.
Pelfree was arrested in September after investigators said they found human remains identified as those of Brown and Shaw in barrels on his property on West Ison Road. Both men were shot, officials said. Shaw, 35, was reported missing from his Gosport home in March 2007. Brown, 23, of Bloomington, was reported missing to Bloomington police during the summer.
Evans on day reporting as condition of bail
A woman back in Monroe County for a second trial in connection with the 2004 dragging death of a Bloomington man must report daily to community corrections for breath and urine screens as a condition of her bail, according to an order signed earlier this week by Monroe Circuit Judge Marc Kellams. Misty Evans returned to Monroe County from the Indiana Department of Correction last month and is free after posting a $25,000 surety bond. She was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident and received an eight-year prison sentence in August 2006. That conviction was reversed by the appeals court in December. Prosecutors said she'd been drinking when she struck 21-year-old Jesse Reuben Jacobs with her car and dragged him to death on Rockport Road. Evans maintained she thought she'd hit a deer and didn't seen Jacobs' body when she stopped to look for the animal.
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