Word: seigler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swansboro, N.C., recalls that only a few years ago, tons of sturgeon and mullet were pulled out of the White Oak River. "Now that is nonexistent," he says. "There are no trout schools anymore. Crabs used to be like fleas. I'm lucky to get a few bushels." Ken Seigler, who works Swansboro's Queens Creek, has seen his income from clams and oysters drop 50% in seven years; this year he was forced to apply for food stamps. New Jersey Fisherman Ed Maliszewski has used his small boat for only two weeks this year. He is trying to bail...
Sunday's excitement climaxed in the B flight championship match. Texas' Michelle Currier, seeded fourth, met Clemson's Melissa Seigler, an experienced veteran, seeded second. Three hours and 15 minutes later when the clay had settled. Seigler grasped the victory, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6. She had managed to come back from a 5-1 deficit in the seven-point third set tie breaker to overcome her freshman opponent...
...jurors had begun deliberating around 3 in the afternoon, and it was now around 6:30 p.m. Prosecutor Warren Von Schuch was worried. As he later put it, "The longer a [jury] panel is out, the worse shape we're in." And so he proposed a deal to Seigler's attorneys: their client would plead guilty to first-degree murder and robbery and receive a 60-year prison term, with 20 years suspended...
...Perhaps Seigler, already convicted three times for robbery, calculated that if he was convicted for capital murder, he might be sent to the electric chair like Frank Coppola, a fellow Virginian executed two weeks ago. At 7:25 p.m., Seigler, ushered into the courtroom of Judge William E. Spain, accepted the deal. The jury, which had sent word of a verdict, was kept waiting while Spain approved the new plea. After Seigler was led away, the judge invited the jury into the room and informed them of the guilty plea. One juror slumped in a chair, while several others just...
...Seigler must serve his sentence and will not be eligible for parole for twelve years. Said Defense Attorney John Dodson: "I can't tell you how badly he feels...