GP Set Free

A Grand Prairie man, Stevie Barnes was found not guilty of murder in the 2012 shooting death of a man at a Far North Dallas drug house. On Wednesday after an eight-day trial, Stevie LaTodd Barnes was released shortly after that from the Collin County jail, where he had been held since he was arrested on Feb. 1, 2013. His attorneys were Mitch Nolte and Gregg Gibbs. They both claim that they knew that he was innocent way before this case even had to go into trial. Barnes had originally been charged with capital murder. He was accused of shooting 24-year-old Jamie Demarcus Smith during the course of a robbery in an apartment in the 5000 block of Pear Ridge Drive in Collin County. Barnes had originally been charged with capital murder. He was accused of shooting 24-year-old Jamie Demarcus Smith during the course of a robbery in an apartment in the 5000 block of Pear Ridge Drive, which is in Collin County. Police documents said about $1,000 was reported missing from the apartment. But Nolte said there was no evidence of missing money presented at trial. The reason why this is so important to our economy is due to the fact that some people are actually innocent and others are running out there trying to steal money which they haven't earned. Plus, the killing of a man is obviously just horrible. That $1,000 has got to come from somewhere. What if we need that $1,000 for an emergency or something. We need to lock the real criminals up before robberies and more murders occur, which is not good for us at all socially or economically. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/best-southwest/headlines/20140327-grand-prairie-man-found-not-guilty-of-murder.ece