BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-KNOX) – The North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected most of the arguments in the appeal of Salamah Pendleton, the Grand Forks man convicted in the shooting deaths of his mother and a Grand Forks police officer in May of 2020. Among the questions raised by Defense Attorney Kiara Krauss-Parr: Whether the court created a structural error denying…
BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next Tuesday in the appeal of Salamah Pendleton. He was convicted in the May 2020 shooting death of Grand Forks officer Cody Holte along with his own mother, Lola Moore. Pendleton was convicted of firing at officers while they were serving eviction papers at his south Grand Forks apartment….
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — The man convicted of murdering Grand Forks Police Officer Cody Holte is appealing his case to the North Dakota Supreme Court, according to court records. In July, a jury convicted Salamah Pendleton for the murder of Holte along with Pendleton’s own mother, Lola Moore. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of Grand Forks…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – A Grand Forks man is sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility for parole for killing Grand Forks Police Officer, Cody Holte and his mother Lola Moore in May 2020. Salamah Pendleton was convicted on two counts of murder in the May 2020 killings of Grand Forks Police Officer Cody Holte and his mother,…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – Salamah Pendleton is sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility of parole for killing Grand Forks Police Officer Cody Holte and his mother Lola Moore in May 2020. “The defendant determined his own sentences today by the many choices he made May 27, 2020. The defendant’s choices claimed his family’s 61-year-old mother and grandmother….
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – Salamah Pendleton is convicted of killing his mother Lola Moore and Grand Forks Police Officer Cody Holte. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Sergeant Kelly McLean and Corporal Ron Nord. “Count one as for the charge of murder, extreme indifference to the value of human life as…
UPDATE – The jury in the Salamah Pendleton trial has the case and were sent home around 4:30 Tuesday. They will return Wednesday morning to continue deliberating. Prosecutor Carmell Mattison says Salamah Pendleton’s state of mind was reckless and intentional. “If you recall that book that was in his living room opened up was on the page of homicide. It…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – A man charged in the shooting deaths of his mother and Grand Forks Police Officer Cody Holte testified during his trial Monday in Grand Forks. Salamah Pendleton told jurors that he fired about 22 shots in self-defense after officers entered his apartment and ordered him to come out of his bedroom. Pendleton said that he…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KNOX) – Testimony continued Friday in the murder trial of Salamah Pendleton, who’s charged in the shooting deaths of Grand Forks Police Officer Cody Holte and Pendleton’s mother, Lola Moore. Jurors heard from the doctor who performed autopsies on the victims. Dr. Mark Koponen, a UND forensic pathology professor, said Holte received bullet wounds in his chest…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – Testimony continues in day six of the Salamah Pendleton trial. The jury heard from two North Dakota BCI agents who investigated the scene of last year’s shooting that left Grand Forks officer Cody Holte and Pendleton’s mother dead. Photos shown during Wednesday’s testimonies show how Pendleton’s apartment was marked by investigators who returned to the…
