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JK
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 Posted - 08/17/2010 : 12:27:52 AM
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Race surfaces as jury selected in Portage school bus trial
Ashley Toney, 18, faces three felony counts of sexual battery, felony criminal confinement, two misdemeanor counts of public indecency and misdemeanor charges of criminal recklessness and disorderly conduct connected to incidents from late 2008 to early 2009 on a Portage High School bus.
By Bob Kasarda
Aug 16 2010
The Times of Northwest Indiana
VALPARAISO | The public defender representing 18-year-old Ashley Toney wasted little time Monday touching on one of the sensitive issues in this week's trial alleging abuse among students on a Portage school bus.
Dolores Aylesworth asked the all-white panel of potential jurors to imagine being on trial where the judge, attorneys and jurors were all black.
"What's going through your mind?" she asked.
A female potential juror said she would feel nervous, uneasy and very judged.
"You don't know what the other people are thinking," she said.
A nearby male potential juror agreed.
"I'd feel like I was out on an island," he said.
Both assured Aylesworth they would be fair and impartial in hearing this week's case against Toney, who is black.
When she twice asked the group if anyone felt otherwise, no one spoke up. ...
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JK
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Posted - 08/22/2010 : 12:33:29 PM
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Teen convicted of terrorizing students on school bus
Staff report
August 20, 2010
Chicago Breaking News
An 18-year-old has been convicted of sexually assaulting two girls as he and two others terrorized students on a school bus in northwest Indiana.
Ashley Toney and two other teens were accused of repeatedly groping and threatening teen girls on a Portage school bus between November 2008 and February 2009.
Toney was convicted Thursday of exposing himself and repeatedly fondling two female students. He was taken into custody after the jury verdict.
Prosecutors said Toney led Joe Carnell and Charles McCloud-Smith in terrorizing the students. They agreed to plead guilty and testified against Toney in return for lesser penalties.
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