One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
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On Wednesday, November 9, 2022, following a hearing, the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole granted parole to Criss Case over the objections of the victims' families and the Phillips County Attorney. Criss Case, together with Ricky Worden, Ronald Allen Worden, and Austin Metcalf murdered Raymond and Dorothy Scheffelmear, and Doris Watkins at the Loring Bar on November 8, 1978. Originally given what amounted to a life sentence, subsequent changes in the law made him eligible for parole in 1996. Previously, the Board had denied him parole every...
Grace O. Albia and Jannet Benitez Zeta were scheduled to enter Nolo Contendere (No Contest) pleas to misdemeanor Deceptive Election Practices in Phillips County Justice Court on September 13, 2022. The charges alleged that they falsified their voter registration forms on October 12, 2021 by declaring that they were citizens of the United States. At the time, both were citizens of the Philippines living in Montana with work visas. Albia and Zeta no longer live or work in Montana. The plea agreement recommended that they each pay the maximum fine...
Grace O. Albia and Jannet Benitez Zeta have both been charged with Deceptive Election Practices in Phillips County Justice Court. The charges allege that both falsified their voter registration form on October 12, 2021, when they declared on the form that they were United States citizens. Both are citizens of the Philippines here in Montana on work visas. After the Dodson, Montana town election in November 2021, several residents of Dodson notified the Phillips County Clerk and Recorder that Zeta and Albia had voted in the election but were...
