Murder Attempt Prozac 13/03/1991 Kentucky Woman Shoots her Doctor
 
 Summary:<br><br><div>Paragraph one reads:&nbsp; &quot;Warren County Circuit Judge J. David Francis denied a request for a new trial for Rebecca McStoots, who was convicted of assault in the<strong> March 1990 shooting of a Bowling Green doctor.</strong>&quot;<br /><br />Paragraph five reads:&nbsp; <strong>&quot;Thompson claimed during the trial that<u> side effects of the drug Prozac, an anti-depressant, caused McStoots to shoot the doctor. </u>The drug has been blamed as a triggering agent in violent acts nationwide, but its manufacturer has denied the accusations.&quot;<br /><br /></strong>______________________________________________________________________<br />BOND DENIED FOR MAN CHARGED WITH SLAYING OF POLICE OFFICER<br />Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)<br />March 13, 1991<br />Author: Staff, wire reports <br />Estimated printed pages: 4 <br /><br />Request to retry assault case denied<br /><br />BOWLING GREEN -- Warren County Circuit Judge J. David Francis denied a request for a new trial for Rebecca McStoots, who was convicted of assault in the March 1990 shooting of a Bowling Green doctor.<br /><br />Francis denied defense attorney Kelly Thompson&#39;s motion that a complete competency hearing had not been conducted for McStoots, 39, of Leitchfield, before her trial in the shooting of Dr. John Tapp, 49.<br /><br />Tapp was shot once in the neck with a .25-caliber pistol at his office after a disagreement about a disability form.<br /><br />Thompson claimed during the trial that side effects of the drug <strong>Prozac</strong>, an anti-depressant, caused McStoots to <strong>shoot</strong> the doctor. The drug has been blamed as a triggering agent in violent acts nationwide, but its manufacturer has denied the accusations.<br /><br />Francis said he would take under advisement Thompson&#39;s request for a new trial concerning two alleged procedural errors during the December trial.<br /><br />McStoots was found guilty Dec. 14 but has not been sentenced because of appeals.<br /><br />Judge: There&#39;s no plot to kill ex-mayor<br /><br />NEWPORT -- A Campbell County judge says a lawsuit a former Newport mayor filed contending there is a conspiracy to kill him is groundless.<br /><br />But former Mayor Johnny Peluso says the ruling that he is abusing the court system won&#39;t stop him from continuing his efforts against those he says are out to kill him.<br /><br />He said he had no plans to stop filing lawsuits and, because other attorneys had refused to take his case, would continue acting as his own attorney.<br /><br />&quot;I&#39;m going to appeal it,&quot; he said. &quot;I want my day in court.&quot;<br /><br />Peluso, a former commissioner and mayor who last served on the city<br />commission in 1981, was the central figure in a 35-page federal indictment in 1984. The investigation leading to the indictment centered on the misuse of federal funds, bribes, kickbacks and the manipulation of appointments and contracts in the now-defunct Newport Community Development program.<br /><br />In 1985, Peluso was sentenced to two consecutive five-year prison terms on his conviction of lying to a federal grand jury. He also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy. He has been released from prison and is living in Cincinnati.<br /><br />He maintains that he would move back to Kentucky but fears for his life. Since his conviction, Peluso has filed several lawsuits seeking to overturn the convictions and claiming he was set up.<br /><br />Teen gets year sentence for taking skulls<br /><br />COVINGTON -- A Covington teen-ager who admitted stealing human skulls from a Northern Kentucky cemetery has been sentenced to a year in jail.<br /><br />Kenton District Judge Steven Jaeger gave Walter &quot;Pete&quot; Shorter, 18, the maximum sentence for the crime.<br /><br />Jaeger rejected a plea agreement that would have allowed Shorter to return immediately to Ohio to face charges unrelated to the graveyard thefts.<br /><br />&quot;I believe to (accept the agreement) would unduly diminish the seriousness of your actions,&quot; Jaeger said Monday before imposing the sentence. &quot;I feel what you&#39;ve done is despicable.&quot;<br /><br />Shorter originally was charged with felony desecration of a venerated object, which carries a prison term of up to five years. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge that carries up to a year in the county jail.<br /><br />Shorter was charged in February after police saw him carrying a skull in a box. He said he was delivering the skull, buried in a crypt in Linden Grove Cemetery in 1866, to a group of Satan worshipers.<br /><br />Rowan County wins speech tournament<br /><br />The Rowan County team placed first among high schools in last weekend&#39;s state speech tournament in Lexington sponsored by the Kentucky Interscholastic Speech and Drama Association.<br /><br />Pikeville was second, followed by Paul Laurence Dunbar of Lexington, Boone County and Jessamine County.<br /><br />In the middle school division, Harrison County won top honors, followed by R.A. Jones Junior High in Florence, Russell Middle School in Russell, Ockerman Middle School in Florence and Rowan County Middle School.<br /><br />Man charged with trying to buy cocaine<br /><br />A Lexington man was arrested Monday after he allegedly agreed to buy a kilogram of cocaine for $19,000 from an undercover police officer.<br /><br />James Lee Brown, 41, of 221 North Limestone Street, was arrested outside a restaurant on North Broadway where he had met the undercover agent and discussed buying the cocaine.<br /><br />Brown was charged with attempting to possess and distribute cocaine, a federal charge. He appeared yesterday before U.S. Magistrate James Cook, who fixed bond at $20,000. Cook allowed Brown to remain free, however, provided he posted the bond by close of business Thursday.<br /><br />According to an affidavit by Marsha Bales, a Florida police officer who passed herself as someone who had cocaine to sell, she learned in early<br />December that Brown was interested in buying a kilogram of cocaine for $19,000.<br /><br />Plans were made for them to meet for lunch at the restaurant. When they met, Brown produced an envelope he said contained $5,000. He raised his shirt and revealed three more envelopes, each of which he said contained $5,000, according to Bales&#39; affidavit.<br /><br />Brown was arrested as he left the restaurant. <br />Memo:&nbsp; News in brief <br />Edition:&nbsp; BLUE GRASS<br />Section:&nbsp; CITY/STATE<br />Page:&nbsp; B2<br />Copyright (c) 1991 Lexington Herald-Leader<br />Record Number:&nbsp; 9101100109 <br /><br />OpenURL Article Bookmark (right click, and copy the link location):<br /><a href="http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:LHLB&amp;rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&amp;rft_dat=0EB73D1C9754D212&amp;svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&amp;req_dat=0FC00B934DD580D0">BOND DENIED FOR MAN CHARGED WITH SLAYING OF POLICE OFFICER</a><br /></div> 
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