Stories tagged with: richard shahan

• Murder charges dropped against former pastor

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, April 11, 2017 (7 years ago)

  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) -- The prosecution of former Southern Baptist associate pastor Richard Shahan should be dropped for lack of sufficient evidence to prove whether he stabbed to death his wife in 2013, Alabama Attorney General Steven Marshall announced Monday (April 10).

  Marshall filed a motion in Jefferson County Circuit Court to "nolle prosequi without prejudice" -- drop the prosecution without prejudice -- of 55-year-old Shahan, thereby preserving the right to prosecute if and when additional evidence becomes available. Read More

• Minister pleads innocent to wife's murder

  by Staff, posted Thursday, February 05, 2015 (9 years ago)

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- A former church staff member accused of murdering his wife entered a not guilty plea in a mid-January hearing.

  Richard Shahan, 53, entered the plea in a Jefferson County circuit court in Birmingham, Ala. Reports of the Jan. 16 hearing were carried in such media as the New York Daily News and People magazine's website. Read More