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In a 12-minute arraignment hearing last week, Ryan Champion, of Trigg County, Kentucky, entered his plea, changed attorneys and requested a speedy trial that would start as soon as February. A February court date was not reasonable, Champion and his new attorney, Tom Osborne of Paducah, Kentucky, were told...
Motions for a speedy trial and a bill of particulars — the defendant asks full disclosure of the evidence against him — were scheduled for Feb. 13 in Trigg County Court...
Bond remains at $5 million for Ryan Champion, who remains in the Christian County, Kentucky, jail, located about 15 miles from Trigg County. Trigg County has no jail, Ovey said.
Ann L. Plotkin, 41, was indicted by a special grand jury and booked into the Christian County Jail on Wednesday, according to a KSP spokesman. She is facing three counts of complicity to murder. Her bond has not been set...
KSP Trooper Jay Thomas said Plotkin was a person of interest early in the investigation and, in a little over three months, investigators built a case against her showing that she may have had knowledge of the murders before 22-year-old Vito Riservato, Hopkinsville, allegedly shot Champion’s parents and adult sister.
Trigg County Grand Jury indicted Plotkin with three counts of complicity to commit capital murder and one count of resisting arrest in Christian County at the time of the execution of the indictment warrants.
Commonwealth of Kentucky prosecutor Carrie Ovey-Wiggins said Friday that Ann Plotkin waived formal reading of the charges and said she was innocent of three charges of complicity of murder in the cases of Emily Champion and her parents, Lindsey and Joy Champion, at their rural Cadiz, Kentucky home Oct. 26... She had dated Ryan Champion, Emily Champions brother...
Plotkins daughter, Kori-Marie Stroup, told radio station WKDZ outside the courtroom that authorities had pressured her mother, who dated Champion, to bolster their case against him. Stroup said she herself had once dated Riservato.
Authorities said Plotkin had been under investigation almost since the murders, and said she was arrested after State Police had used court orders to review her telephone and social media records.
Was there any wonder about Ms. Plotkin from the get-go? Puh-lease.
Accused murderer Ryan L. Champion will have his day in court. Trigg County Circuit Court Judge C.A. “Woody” Woodall ruled Friday that Champion, 37, of Oak Grove would stand trial Aug. 15 on capital murder and kidnapping charges...
Woodall set the August court date after defense attorney Joanne Lynch made an unsuccessful attempt to have the death penalty removed from the table.
Judge agrees to move Ryan Champion murder case out of Trigg County
TRIGG COUNTY, KY - Ryan Champion, the man accused in a murder for hire plot to kill his family, will now be tried in Livingston County.
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The next motions hearing is April 1st.
Meanwhile, Champion's former girlfriend, Ann Plotkin, who is charged as a co-conspirator, was in court as well.
She will also get a change of venue, but exactly where she will be tried will be determined later.
http://www.kentuckynewera.com/news/ap/article_b0b5e824-1404-11e6-baea-cbfa95784a03.htmlAn Oak Grove man accused in Trigg County of murdering his family is seeking to delay his trial for another year.
Ryan Champion, 36, was charged in 2014 with four counts of capital murder and one count of kidnapping after the bodies of his father Lindsey Champion, 62; mother Joy Champion, 60; sister Emily Champion, 31; and his alleged accomplice Vito Riservato, 22, were found at the Champion family's home Oct. 26.
Champion's trial, which will take place in Livingston County, is scheduled to begin Aug. 15.
In a recently filed motion for a continuance, Champion's defense attorneys, Joanne Lynch and Audrey Woosnam, who work for the Capital Trial Branch of the public defender's office, asked the court to consider delaying the trial until July 2017, stating more time is needed to properly build a defense.
So sad. Two kids, same parents, same environment. One successful, one who kills them. Some people are just born with different neurological wiring, IMHO.
http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/32028846/champion-murder-trial-delayed-until-2017Ryan Champion’s trial is now scheduled for February 2017. He could face the death penalty in the October 2014 deaths of his mother, father, and the man police believe Champion hired to kill them.
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Champion's defense team says it felt more time is needed to give him a fair trial. The lawyers have more than 1,600 pages to go through. Champion’s lawyers are also trying to get his military and adoption records. And, because their client could be sentenced to death, they say they want to give the case their full attention.
Friday was our first time hearing details of what took place in 2014. Hoping for justice, the Champion family had to relive the details of how their loved ones died in the courtroom.
http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/32455433/ryan-champion-will-be-tried-separately-from-co-defendantRyan Champion, a man facing the death penalty in Trigg County, will be tried separately from his co-defendant.
The judge denied a motion on Friday to have both Champion and Ann Plotkin's trials together.
Champion's trial date is February 20, 2017.
http://www.kentuckynewera.com/news/article_a49a6e1c-ae1d-11e6-8d4b-eb0c8d8690ee.htmlCADIZ, Ky. — Ryan Champion appeared in Trigg County Circuit Court on Friday and his defense team filed a motion for a continuance of the trial currently schedule to begin Feb. 20, 2017.
According to the article below, he was adopted. What a horrific case.So sad. Two kids, same parents, same environment. One successful, one who kills them. Some people are just born with different neurological wiring, IMHO.