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December 12, 2025 PRESS RELEASE: Ginger Bowden Madden, State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit of Florida,announces on December 11, 2025, the Honorable Judge Simon
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December 12, 2025 PRESS RELEASE: Ginger Bowden Madden, State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit of Florida,announces on December 11, 2025, the Honorable Judge Simon

December 11, 2025 PRESS RELEASE (Escambia County, Florida) On December 11, 2025, Kopelyn Gerard Gildon was convicted of Second Degree Murder with a Firearm by

December 11, 2025 PRESS RELEASE On December 11, 2025, Circuit Judge John Simon sentenced Shybri Steverson to life in prison following his conviction for Second

December 10, 2025 PRESS RELEASE State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden announced that on December 10, 2025, 23-year-old Joseph Henry Broxson was found guilty by a

December 5, 2025 PRESS RELEASE (Escambia County) State Attorney Ginger Madden announces that her office will seek the death penalty against John Henry Walston, Jr., for

November 24, 2025 PRESS RELEASE On November 19, 2025, an Escambia County jury found Shybri Steverson guilty of Second Degree Murder with a Firearm. Escambia

November 24, 2025 PRESS RELEASE On November 18, 2025, Todd Lee Taylor was found guilty of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation (victim over 12 but less

November 21, 2025 PRESS RELEASE (Escambia County, Florida) On November 21, 2025, Darryl Jerome Walker, Sr., was sentenced to life in prison by Circuit Judge