5 posts tagged Selonia Reed

Selonia Reed

What really happened to Selonia Reed?

Judge William Dykes of the 21st District Court sentenced Reginald Lathan Reed, 60, to life in prison without the possibility of parole or probation. Six minutes earlier, Defense Council Vanessa Williams claimed a juror disobeyed the judge’s orders and tried to learn more about the trial from the internet.

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Justice at last in Selonia Smith Reed case

On January 11, 2023, the 21st Judicial Court will sentence Reginald Lathan Reed to a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison. A jury unanimously returned his guilty verdict at 7:30 on a Friday night after deliberating only four hours on November 18.

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Reginald Reed’s murder trial starts Monday

Jury selection begins Monday, November 14, in the second-degree murder trial of 1998 Hammond mayoral candidate Reginald Lathan Reed. In June 2019, the 2lst Judicial District charged Reed, 62, with the second-degree murder of his wife thirty-five years earlier.

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Justice for Selonia Reed remains elusive

On Mother’s Day, the bondsman got Reginald Reed out of the Tangipahoa Parish Prison and drove him to the Winn Dixie in Amite. Due to restrictions imposed during the pandemic, the sheriff’s office allowed only bondsmen in and out of the prison. The agent told me later that she was unaware of the evidence against the man or the rape charges filed against him in an unrelated case.

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