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Murder trials set for docket A heavy trial docket, loaded with murder cases, drug cases and more greeted jurors as they assembled for the spring criminal jury session of Clarke County Circuit Court in Grove Hill Monday. Two juries were seated and trials started in the adjoining courtrooms of the new annex Tuesday. One, a murder case, concerned the shooting death of Jamaury Whittaker at the "Chicken Coop" club in Gainestown on Sept. 1, 2006. Trenton McLain is charged with Whittaker's murder. Assistant District Attorney Joe Thompson called it "an assassination…a cold-blooded murder." Whittaker was shot in the neck and fatally wounded with a sawed-off 20-gauge shotgun in the crowded nightspot. Defense attorney Perry Newton told jurors that the state's version of the facts "is not adding up to murder in this case…They can't prove he went to the Chicken Coop with the intent to murder" Whittaker. Judge Thomas Baxter is presiding over the case which continued Wednesday. Rape case being tried In the courtroom next door, a rape trial got started Tuesday with Choctaw County District Judge Pedro Scrulock sitting as a special appointed circuit judge. Alvon Portis was charged with first degree rape. The victim was 13 years old at the time of the alleged rape. It was expected to finish and go to the jury Wednesday.
Washington County District Judge Jerry Turner was also present to handle any other cases on the heavy docket Tuesday but no lawyers were present and nothing came up.
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