New Hearing For Northwestern PA Teacher Strangulating A Student

ERIE, Pa. (AP) – A former northwestern Pennsylvania high school teacher will be getting a new hearing on his conviction in the strangulation death of a student more than four decades ago.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week rejected an appeal by Erie County prosecutors of a lower court ruling that 82-year-old Raymond Payne should receive a new degree-of-guilt hearing.
District Attorney Jack Daneri told the Erie Times-News on Friday that he will argue that Payne is guilty of first-degr