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Thursday, April 10
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- A Tennessee native was found not guilty today of felony murder in the slaying of Victor Manious, a Gaines Township man whose body was found in the trunk of his own vehicle, parked on a downtown street. The jury found Steven Scarborough, 22, guilty of a lesser charge voluntary manslaughter. Scarborough was accused of luring 62-year-old Victor Manious to a friend's apartment to rob him. The prosecution said he then struck Manious in the head with a blunt force object before dragging him down stairs to Manious' car, stuffing...
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: Grand Rapids Press MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- While a jury considers the fate of Steven Scarborough who admits to killing Victor Manious, members of the dead man's family turned to the local press to dispute pictures painted of Manious by both prosecutors and defenders in the case. While lawyers on the two sides of the case described vastly different scenarios during the trial, both had a common theme -- that Manious, a father of four and lay leader of the local Coptic Church, was arguably gay. Family members insist that can't be true of the man they knew. Assistant Prosecutor...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial [post updated at 7:26 pm PT with breaking information from WOOD TV ] Grand Rapids, Mich. -- A Kent County jury here has begun deliberations into whether Steven Scarborough is a robber and kidnapper who bludgeoned a 62-year-old man to death, or whether the 22-year-old defendant was being molested and wielded a baseball bat in self defense. Closing arguments were presented in the first part of the day. Then jury began discussing the evidence presented around 2 p.m. Wednesday, and went home for the day around 5:30 p.m. Defense lawyers said again...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial Steven Scarborough testified in his own defense on Monday and Tuesday WOOD TV screen capture GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- It was phrased as a question, but the look on accused murderer Steven Scarborough's face made it appear it was news to him. "If you hadn't stolen from Victor Manious, you would have gotten away with this," Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Helen Brinkman said to Scarborough, who returned to the stand Tuesday in his own defense on the charge of felony murder. Brinkman told Scarborough there were no prints on the...
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Tuesday, April 01
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Source: Grand Rapids Press MI Manious trial Steven Scarborough GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- As part of the so-called "gay panic" defense being used to explain the actions of accused killer Steven Scarborough, his lawyer planned to show there was a connection between victim Victor Manious and a friend of the accused -- a person described as being "up to his eyeballs in this crime." Defense attorney Paul Denenfeld said in his opening statement to the jury that 19-year-old Justin Robinson played a major role in the alleged murder of Manious, a 62-year-old found dead in a car trunk in...
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Wednesday, March 26
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- Two vastly different accounts of what happened before, during and after the death of a local businessman and church leader were presented to jurors today in opening statements for the murder trial of Steven Scarborough. The prosecution said Scarborough is a killer, while the defense put forth that Scarborough got dragged into the murder by a friend with whom he was staying. Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Helen Brinkman said Scarborough lured 62-year-old Victor Manious from a local gay bar to a friend's apartment in July...
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Tuesday, March 25
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , Muskegon Chronicle MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS, Mich -- A jury was to be selected today to hear the case against 21-year-old Steven Scarborough, accused of luring 62-year-old Victor Manious to a Southeast Side apartment where the older man was beaten and robbed, then stuffed into the trunk of a Toyota only in his underwear and left to die. Scarborough faces mandatory life in prison if he is convicted of murder, but defense attorney Paul Denefeld is expected to argue the younger man overreacted to homosexual advances from the late businessman and lay leader of the...
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