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Tennessee fan enters Young trial fray
By Gary Parrish
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January 25, 2005
Jurors were brought in to resume Logan Young’s criminal trial this morning, and local Tennessee fan Roy Adams made his first official appearance in the case.
A post on an Internet message board that caters to Tennessee fans on Wednesday night under the screen name "TennStud" detailed the day’s happenings, as posts have since this trial began. Among the things written were that TennStud had drinks after court adjourned with media members and jurors.
Defense attorney Jim Neal asked judge Daniel Breen to send a marshall after Adams to have him brought to the Clifford Davis Federal Building downtown to address this issue. Judge Breen declined, but when Adams arrived shortly before jurors were brought in, he was summoned to the podium and asked about this post.
Adams acknowledged that he does post under the name "TennStud," and that no one else used that name. However, he denied having contact with any juror and said that someone must have edited his post after he finished.
When the jury was brought in, Judge Breen asked if any of them had spoken with anybody about the case. They each indicated that they had not.
After that, testimony resumed from Cathy Williams, an FBI intelligence researcher. She was then dismissed, and on the stand at 11 was Deborah Kines, a customer service representative from Trust One Bank, where Young holds a checking account.
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