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05-22-2004, 02:22 PM
Leonardo Carson's kidnapping, burglary case set
Baldwin County DA will prosecute
Saturday, May 22, 2004
GARY McELROY, Mobile Register A Mobile County judge Friday set June 14 as the date professional football player Leonardo Carson will go to trial on charges of first-degree burglary and second-degree kidnapping.
Carson, a defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys and a former standout at Auburn University, is accused of breaking into the home of the sister of his ex-girlfriend in an apparent attempt to locate his daughter.
Mobile County prosecutors have alleged that Carson, 27, burst into the Sage Avenue home of Tasha Locke in August 2003, then ordered her to lead him to the 8-year-old daughter he fathered with Locke's sister, Leshea Locke.
Baldwin County District Attorney David Whetstone will be at the prosecution table on June 14 when Carson goes before Mobile County Circuit Judge Joseph "Rusty" Johnston for trial.
Earlier this month, Carson's Mobile attorney Johnny Brutkiewicz asked District Attorney John Tyson Jr. and everyone in his office to step down from the case. Brutkiewicz noted that the husband of one of Tyson's fellow prosecutors represents the football player's alleged victim in a civil suit stemming from the Sage Avenue incident.
Tyson agreed to the request. After checking with the Alabama Attorney General's office, he asked Whetstone to take over.
Outside court Friday, both Whetstone and Brutkiewicz suggested that the case could be settled but gave no indication how.
If something is not worked out, Whetstone said, the June date would be a good time because courts in Baldwin County would be slow then.
Baldwin County DA will prosecute
Saturday, May 22, 2004
GARY McELROY, Mobile Register A Mobile County judge Friday set June 14 as the date professional football player Leonardo Carson will go to trial on charges of first-degree burglary and second-degree kidnapping.
Carson, a defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys and a former standout at Auburn University, is accused of breaking into the home of the sister of his ex-girlfriend in an apparent attempt to locate his daughter.
Mobile County prosecutors have alleged that Carson, 27, burst into the Sage Avenue home of Tasha Locke in August 2003, then ordered her to lead him to the 8-year-old daughter he fathered with Locke's sister, Leshea Locke.
Baldwin County District Attorney David Whetstone will be at the prosecution table on June 14 when Carson goes before Mobile County Circuit Judge Joseph "Rusty" Johnston for trial.
Earlier this month, Carson's Mobile attorney Johnny Brutkiewicz asked District Attorney John Tyson Jr. and everyone in his office to step down from the case. Brutkiewicz noted that the husband of one of Tyson's fellow prosecutors represents the football player's alleged victim in a civil suit stemming from the Sage Avenue incident.
Tyson agreed to the request. After checking with the Alabama Attorney General's office, he asked Whetstone to take over.
Outside court Friday, both Whetstone and Brutkiewicz suggested that the case could be settled but gave no indication how.
If something is not worked out, Whetstone said, the June date would be a good time because courts in Baldwin County would be slow then.