By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET
for Glasgow News 1
Three of Barren County’s five pending murder cases were on Monday afternoon’s docket in Barren Circuit Court for pretrial conferences, though one was postponed.
Campbell
James Edward Campbell, 46, is accused of fatally shooting Roger L. Noland, 35, of Scottsville on Feb. 10 following an alleged confrontation in the parking lot outside Campbell’s residence in Glasgow.
In addition to his murder charge, Campbell is facing two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment due to the allegation that two other people were in Noland’s vicinity when the shots were fired. Noland was transported after the incident to T.J. Samson Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Campbell’s defense attorney, Johnny Bell, has recently filed a motion for the case to be dismissed, so that was the main point of discussion at Monday’s proceeding, and it was determined that the matter would be addressed via written arguments to be submitted by the end of August to Judge John T. Alexander’s consideration.
Bell had requested at Campbell’s preliminary hearing that District Judge Gabe Pendleton consider home incarceration and noted that Campbell has a problem with his back, and he has since clarified that his client has had a pain medicine pump inserted. Pendleton later granted Bell’s request.
Several of Noland’s family members were present in the courtroom Monday and some of them had been among a group of protesters last week who were expressing dissatisfaction with the fact that Campbell is out of jail on an unsecured bond.
Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Resa Gardner, at Monday’s proceeding, noted that Campbell’s bond conditions were carried over from district court after his indictment. Alexander read the list of bond conditions that include strict house arrest, curfew monitoring, no weapons or firearms, and no contact or communication with his ex-wife, who was one of the individuals said to be near Noland when he was shot. Gardner said there was some indication the last of those conditions had been violated, but without getting into what prompted that allegation, she said her main point was that she wanted Campbell to be reminded of those conditions he has to meet.
His next pretrial conference was set for Sept. 25.
Outside the courthouse later, Noland’s family members had gathered and a few had comments to the effect that they didn’t understand how Campbell could have been allowed out of jail with no money or property posted for such a significant crime.
Rosetta Groves, Noland’s mother, said she felt Campbell played her sons’s “God, judge, jury and executioner.”
She said she’d been told that the Barren County Detention Center, where Campbell had been lodged for nearly seven weeks, couldn’t accommodate his medical needs.
“Who accommodated my son?” Groves asked. “That’s what I don’t understand.”
Bennett-Logsdon
Cheryl Leighanne Bennett and her mother, Donna Cheryl Logsdon, are each charged with murder in relation to the death of Michael “Mickey” O. Logsdon, their father and husband, respectively.
According to their indictments, on or about July 9, 2022, they turned off the BiPap machine that Mickey Logsdon needed to breathe.
Bennett was not in court Monday, and the judge said she was “at a facility in Georgia.” No further explanation regarding the type of facility was provided, and Bell, who is representing Bennett and Logsdon, declined to comment when asked about that after the proceeding.
Bennett’s bond had been temporarily revoked in April after she tested positive for methamphetamine, and she also still has charges pending from 2022 that include first-degree possession of methamphetamine, third or more offense,and public intoxication on a controlled substance, excluding alcohol.
Another pretrial conference for this case was set for Sept. 25.
Bacon
Cody Bacon’s case was continued to Aug. 14, at the request prior to Monday of his attorney and agreed upon by Commonwealth’s Attorney John Gardner and the judge.
Bacon is charged with two counts of murder and two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment in relation to the deaths of his brother, David A. Pace, 24, and Pace’s wife, Brittany R. Pace, 22, at the couple’s Glasgow home on Sept. 2, 2021.
Bacon’s trial had been set for August but those dates were cancelled, and it has not been rescheduled.
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