GA - TRIAL OF Ryan Alexander Duke & Bo Dukes - Tara Grinstead, 29, Ocilla, 22 Oct 2005 *Guilty/Not Guilty*

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Amaris Jenkins WGXA‏ @AmarisWGXA 13m13 minutes ago
HAPPENING NOW: #BoDukes is addressing the courtroom. He first apologized to #TaraGrinstead’s family for his actions. @WGXAnews

Vincent T. Hill‏ @VincentHillTV 12m12 minutes ago
A tearful #BoDukes addresses the #TaraGrinstead family during his sentence.

Amaris Jenkins WGXA‏ @AmarisWGXA 11m11 minutes ago
#BoDukes made a very emotional apology for his actions in the disappearance and death of #TaraGrinstead. @WGXAnews


Tony Thomas‏Verified account @TonyThomasWSB 11m11 minutes ago
Bo Dukes to Grinstead family :” I’m truly sorry for your long suffering ...My actions were cowardly. I was more interested in self-pity and self preservation. @wsbtv #taragrinstead


Cathy Russon‏ @cathyrusson 10m10 minutes ago
#BoDukes - Dukes to the court: " ...I failed #TaraGrinstead, failed family, failed community....I'm truly remorseful.."

(video clip: Cathy Russon on Twitter )


Tony Thomas‏Verified account @TonyThomasWSB 9m9 minutes ago
Bo Dukes at sentencing : “My actions and failures are the responsibility of mine alone...I failed Tara Grinstead, and I failed my community... I want everyone to know I am truly remorseful for my actions.” @wsbtv #taragrinstead


#BreakingNews: A day after #BoDukes was convicted of burning the body of #TaraGrinstead and concealing her death, he just offered a the Grinstead family a tearful apology. Judge will sentence him soon. @FOX5Atlanta @ShotByBlaze

(video clip: Portia Bruner on Twitter )

 

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WALB News 10‏Verified account @WALBNews10 11m11 minutes ago
The prosecution is saying that #BoDukes buried this secret for years and #TaraGrinstead's family waited, and waited and waited, wondering what happened to her. #BoDukesSentencing #TaraGrinsteadCase


Vincent T. Hill‏ @VincentHillTV 12m12 minutes ago
The prosecution has asked that #BoDukes receive the maximum sentence to serve, 25 years in prison, for his involvement in #TaraGrinstead and concealing her death by lying to investigators.


Amaris Jenkins WGXA‏ @AmarisWGXA 6m6 minutes ago
The prosecution says #BoDukes may be remorseful now, but he was not remorseful after he and #RyanDuke burned #TaraGrinstead’s body. @WGXAnews

Tony Thomas‏Verified account @TonyThomasWSB 4m4 minutes ago
Prosecution asks for max : 25 years for Bo Dukes . #taragrinstead

Vincent T. Hill‏ @VincentHillTV 4m4 minutes ago
The prosecution has asked that #BoDukes receive the maximum sentence to serve, 25 years in prison, for his involvement in #TaraGrinstead and concealing her death by lying to investigators.

 

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WALB News 10‏Verified account @WALBNews10 3m3 minutes ago
The judge said nothing he does is going to relieve the pain that has been inflicted by what happened to #TaraGrinstead. He said he can't wrap his head around what was done. #BoDukesSentencing #TaraGrinsteadCase


Vincent T. Hill‏ @VincentHillTV 2m2 minutes ago
The judge just told #BoDukes, “this was not like some teenage thing, you were 21 years old when this happened.” #TaraGrinstead


Tony Thomas‏Verified account @TonyThomasWSB 2m2 minutes ago
Judge In Bo Dukes case: “ I just can’t quite wrap my head around what was done.” #taragrinstead @wsbtv

Tony Thomas‏Verified account @TonyThomasWSB 11m11 minutes ago
Judge sentenced Bo Dukes to max —25 years in #taragrinstead case. @wsbtv

Cathy Russon‏ @cathyrusson 11m11 minutes ago
BREAKING: #BoDukes sentenced to 25 years for his involvement in the #TaraGrinstead case.

WALB News 10‏Verified account @WALBNews10 11m11 minutes ago
The judge said that even if #BoDukes didn't remember his conversation with John McCullough, he remembered burning #TaraGrinstead's body and that in 2016 it would have been the time to come forward. The judge is very emotional. #BoDukesSentencing #TaraGrinsteadCase


Vincent T. Hill‏ @VincentHillTV 11m11 minutes ago
Judge is handing down sentence, #BoDukes 5 years count 1, 5 years count 2, 5 years count 3, 10 years count 4. That’s the maximum sentence of 25 years for his involvement in the #TaraGrinstead death.


Wright Gazaway‏ @wgazawayWTOC 7m7 minutes ago
#BREAKING: #BoDukes sentenced to 25 years, the maximum sentence, for burning the body of #TaraGrinstead and then lying about it in subsequent interviews. An emotional judge quoted Romans 3:23, telling him he could have come forward a long time ago.

 

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Cathy Russon‏ @cathyrusson 8m8 minutes ago
#TaraGrinstead's family hugging each other following the maximum sentence given to #BoDukes of 25 years.

(video clip: Cathy Russon on Twitter )


Vincent T. Hill‏ @VincentHillTV 8m8 minutes ago
An emotional #BoDukes hugs his girlfriend Brooke Sheridan after he received the maximum sentence of 25 years.

 

[Kittybunny]

Wow - this was amazingly fast, thank god. After trying to follow the McStay case this is a refreshing change of pace. I am glad he got the maximum sentence - I'm honestly not sure what to think about his level of involvement. He has other criminal charges pending, has charges related to violence against women, etc., ? Did him and Ryan do this together, and he was just either more remorseful and/or smarter to come forward to lessen his involvement or assuage a guilty conscience? Or did it happen as he said? I have no doubt Ryan was part of this, despite his last minute I was home sleeping with my brother alibi (uurrrrrkay), and his DNA in that latex glove definitely shows he was there.

 

[PrairieWind]

That is very very fast. Quick jury verdict and then sentencing the next day. Amazing. You don't see that much anymore.
Like you Kittybunny, i'm not sure what to think of his involvement. I tend to believe his story, and almost have a bit of sympathy for him. But then I see those other sexual assault charges pending against him and....... nope, not sympathetic.

ETA, that is a bare-bones, old-school courtroom. I like it!

 

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Vincent T. Hill‏ @VincentHillTV 4h4 hours ago
The sister of #taragrinstead gives a statement after #BoDukes was sentenced to 25 years for his involvement in #taragrinstead case. For the rest of her statement, go to my Instagram @VincentHillTV and #swipeleft – at Wilcox County Courthouse

(video clip: Vincent T. Hill on Twitter )


Vincent T. Hill‏ @VincentHillTV 4h4 hours ago
The sound of leg shackles as #BoDukes is led out of the Wilcox County Courthouse after being sentence led to 25 years for his involvement in #taragrinstead Bo Dukes will be a witness for both the state and defense in #RyanDuke trial. .@LawCrimeNetwork – at Wilcox County Courthouse

(video clip: Vincent T. Hill on Twitter )

 

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‘Reputations destroyed:’ Read Bo Dukes' speech to courtroom at Tara Grinstead sentencing
Bo Dukes, the man convicted of hiding Tara Grinstead's death, spoke to her family at his sentencing on Friday

March 22, 2019

"...After a four-day trial and guilty verdict this week, Judge Robert Chasteen, Jr. sentenced Bo Dukes to the maximum sentence of 25 years for lying to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and concealing Grinstead's death....

Below is a full transcript of what Dukes said in the courtroom:

'I’m thankful for this opportunity to address the court.

To Tara Grinstead’s family, I am truly sorry. Your long suffering has been unimaginable. My actions are cowardly, callous and cruel. I was more interested in self-pity and self-preservation than doing the right thing for Tara and for you. I pray for your forgiveness.

I apologize to those who were cast under a cloud of suspicion for so long. Reputations with their friends and family destroyed. I can never undo that damage and I sincerely apologize.

To local communities, I’m sorry for the years of uncertainty, of suspicion and mistrust placed even on the law enforcement community by my actions.

I apologize to my own my own family… my mother, and to Brooke Sheridan and her family. My actions and failures I am responsible for alone.

I failed Tara Grinstead, I failed her family, I failed the local community and I hope these proceedings have given some closure to the many people hurt by my actions. I want each of you to know I am truly remorseful. Thank you.'"

‘Reputations destroyed:’ Read Bo Dukes' speech to courtroom at Tara Grinstead sentencing

 

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Bo Dukes Sentencing 03/22/19

 

[Carolina Girl]

I still think he killed her. I am happy with the maximum for these charges. If it were the other way around and Ryan was helping him, if I were Ryan, I would grab some gloves to help carry a dead body too. Did Bo's Girlfriend get the reward? Seems a little self serving if so.

 

[PrairieWind]

I still think he killed her. I am happy with the maximum for these charges. If it were the other way around and Ryan was helping him, if I were Ryan, I would grab some gloves to help carry a dead body too. Did Bo's Girlfriend get the reward? Seems a little self serving if so.

I don't know if we ever heard what happened with the reward.
I am sort of 50/50 as to whether he was involved in the killing. I don't for a second believe that she wasn't raped. I am sure that was THE motive, not robbery.

 

[Carolina Girl]

I think Bo did it and he did rape her. He sure seemed to know everything except why "Ryan killed her". How he got in the house, he strangled her. It just does not add up any other way to me. Thanks PrairieWind.

 

[Gardenista]

The Deadly Tale of Two Dukes and a Small-Town Beauty Queen

 

[Niner]

I can't recall @Gardenista - if you can get into the Georgia court system? Looking for Houston County - Bo's case #2019CR053334 - for the rape, etc. case. Wondering if there is a court date for that one?

TIA!

and edited to add - if you can find next hearing before trial for Ryan Duke?

 

[Niner]

Pre-trial hearing to decide admissibility of DNA testing in Tara Grinstead case


IRWIN CO., GA (WALB) - WALB has been told there will be a pre-trial “Harper” hearing Thursday in the case against Ryan Duke in the Tara Grinstead case.

Duke is charged in Irwin County with one count of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, one count of aggravated assault, one count of burglary and one count of concealing a death in the 2005 death of Grinstead.

Officials told WALB on Monday, that the hearing on Thursday (3/28) will determine if TrueAllele DNA evidence will be admissible in Duke’s trial, which is set to begin on April 1.

Duke’s “Harper” hearing is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m.

There is a pre-trial motions hearing also scheduled for Duke on Wednesday (3/27) in Irwin County. It is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m.

 

[Niner]

From the same article above:

Bo Dukes is also charged in Ben Hill County for concealing a death in the Grinstead case for helping burn Grinstead’s body in a pecan orchard. There will be a calendar call Wednesday (3/27) for his Ben Hill County case.

 

[Seattle1]

I can't recall @Gardenista - if you can get into the Georgia court system? Looking for Houston County - Bo's case #2019CR053334 - for the rape, etc. case. Wondering if there is a court date for that one?

TIA!

and edited to add - if you can find next hearing before trial for Ryan Duke?

I don't read that BD has even been arraigned on the dozen charges in Houston County. Hopefully this man will go away for a very long time -- longer than 25 years just received for Tara.

Houston Co. grand jury indicts Bo Dukes in New Year's Day rape, kidnappings

BONAIRE, Ga. — Bo Dukes now faces a dozen charges, including rape and kidnapping, after an alleged crime spree on New Year's Day.

A Houston County grand jury on Tuesday indicted Dukes on a dozen charges.

Warner Robins police said Dukes kidnapped two women on Jan. 1, took them to his Bonaire home, and sexually assaulted them. He also threatened the women with a gun, police said.

 

[Niner]

I don't read that BD has even been arraigned on the dozen charges in Houston County. Hopefully this man will go away for a very long time -- longer than 25 years just received for Tara.

Houston Co. grand jury indicts Bo Dukes in New Year's Day rape, kidnappings

Actually, per my notes - he was arraigned on these charges.

My notes:
*Charged (1/6/19), indicted (1/15/19) & arraigned (2/17/19) with 1 count of rape, 2 counts for aggravated sodomy, 2 counts for kidnapping, 2 counts for aggravated assault, 4 counts for possession of firearm/knife commission of crime & 1 count for possession of firearm/knife by convicted felon. Plead not guilty. Held without bond. Houston County

 

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Emileigh Forrester WALB ‏Verified account @EmileighTV 20h20 hours ago
JUST IN: Motions hearing for #RyanDuke trial in #TaraGrinsteadCase set for Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in Irwin County. "Harper" hearing to determine admissibility of TrueAllele DNA evidence is set for Thursday at 9:30 a.m. Jury selection still set for April 1. #TaraGrinsteadCase


Tony Thomas‏Verified account @TonyThomasWSB 1h1 hour ago
Breaking : Ryan Duke defense team asks for Georgia Supreme Court to delay the murder trial set for next week until questions can be addressed . Who should pay for Investigator and expert witnesses defense says it needs. Lawyers are working for free. @wsbtv #taragrinstead

Philip Holloway‏Verified account @PhilHollowayEsq 47m47 minutes ago
BREAKING: Ryan Duke’s defense team asks the Georgia Supreme Court to delay the #TaraGrinstead murder trial as battle over indigent defense funding take center stage

 

[YESorNO]

Actually, per my notes - he was arraigned on these charges.

My notes:
*Charged (1/6/19), indicted (1/15/19) & arraigned (2/17/19) with 1 count of rape, 2 counts for aggravated sodomy, 2 counts for kidnapping, 2 counts for aggravated assault, 4 counts for possession of firearm/knife commission of crime & 1 count for possession of firearm/knife by convicted felon. Plead not guilty. Held without bond. Houston County

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