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Militia Case Goes To The Jury

The case of Fairbanks militiaman Shaeffer Cox and two others is one of the most compelling to hit Alaska courts in recent years.  Arguments in the trail are finished, and the case has gone to the jury.  Host of Alaska Edition, Michael Carey covered the weeks-long trial, and stopped by our studios with this update. He started by describing the closing arguments.

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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone. Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org  |  907.550.8446 | About Ellen