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A Baptist pastor in Missouri’s Ozarks was issued a $30,000 bond after spending two years in jail for allegedly taking pictures his spouse’s lover.
Matthew Dedmon, now 49, shot 57-year-old Joe Newburn a number of occasions within the chest on Could 28, 2022 after he allegedly noticed the opposite man together with his spouse in a automotive exterior the Iguana Roja Restaurante within the Ozark Courthouse Sq. Historic District, Ozarks First reported. Dedmon had suspected Newburn was having an affair together with his spouse, the outlet reported.
Newburn died the subsequent day at Cox South Hospital, the Ozark Police Division wrote in a Fb put up.
The Heritage Baptist Church pastor was charged with first-degree homicide and armed prison motion. For 2 years, he had been saved behind bars with out bond.
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An undated mugshot of Heritage Baptist Church Pastor Matthew Dedmon, now 49. (Christian County Jail)
In September 2022, Decide Laura Johnson wrote that letting Dedmon out on bond would put the general public in “grave hazard.”
“The proof is that Defendant possessed a loaded gun on the sq. in Ozark exterior a busy restaurant, and that gun was discharged three to 4 occasions, ensuing within the sufferer’s loss of life. This put everybody on the sq. in grave hazard,” Johnson wrote in her determination, obtained by Regulation & Crime. “There was proof that this conduct was out of character for Defendant, which causes concern about Defendant’s decision-making and judgment.”
“The seriousness of the cost will increase the danger that Defendant won’t seem,” she continued. “For these causes, the Court docket will detain Defendant with out bond.”
For 2 years, Dedmon’s attorneys and state attorneys clashed in a authorized struggle over a “movement to endorse” witnesses and discovery.
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The latest mugshot of Matthew Dedmon. (Christian County Jail)
Nonetheless, on Oct. 1, the decide granted Dedmon $30,000 bond, supplied that he put on a GPS monitoring machine and stay on home arrest.
In response to a protection submitting searching for his launch on bond, Dedmon’s attorneys argued that the state’s slowness to endorse witnesses violated their consumer’s rights below Missouri’s structure.
“This case has been pending for nicely over two years. Counsel for Defendant has labored diligently throughout that point to prepared this case for trial. Simply as Counsel for Defendant believed that depositions had been concluded (as she had deposed all endorsed witnesses) and the matter was lastly able to set for trial, the State filed its movement to endorse, [redacted],” the submitting learn.
“The Defendant adamantly opposes this movement to endorse. Nonetheless, the Defendant submits that ought to the Court docket grant the State’s movement to endorse, in complete or partly, that the Defendant needs to be granted launch on bond because of the State’s inexcusable act of late endorsements, which if allowed, will trigger an inevitable prolonged delay of the Defendant’s trial.”
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Matthew Dedmon allegedly shot Joe Newburn a number of occasions after he noticed him chatting with his spouse within the automotive close to the Iguana Roja Restaurante close to the Ozarks Courthouse Sq. Historic District. (Google Maps)
Christian County Prosecuting Legal professional Kristen Tuohy couldn’t be instantly reached for remark.
As of Wednesday morning, Christian County Jail data didn’t point out that the pastor had been launched. His lawyer couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
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The taking pictures sufferer, Newburn, had “at all times been the man subsequent door that everybody needed to know,” may “construct a motorbike higher than Schwinn” and “construct a sizzling rod as if he some day could be in Nascar,” in accordance with his on-line obituary. He’s survived by two youngsters and a “host of grandkids.”
Dedmon’s homicide trial is scheduled to start on March 3, in accordance with Ozarks First.
