Judge orders West Memphis slaying victim’s stepdad to pay Dixie Chicks singer’s legal costs

By AP
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Victim’s stepdad told to pay singer’s legal costs

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge says the stepfather of one of three Arkansas boys slain in 1993 must pay Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines’ legal costs stemming from a defamation lawsuit he filed against the band.

District Judge Brian S. Miller ordered Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of victim Stevie Branch, to pay $17,590 to Natalie Pasdar, Maines’ married name. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported the ruling Saturday.

In December, Miller dismissed a suit Hobbs filed over Maines’ remarks at a 2007 Little Rock rally implying he was involved in killing his stepson. The judge said Hobbs had voluntarily injected himself into a public controversy over whether three teenagers convicted of killing the three 8-year-old boys had been wrongfully condemned.

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