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.
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.