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Judge tries tactic to get inmate to talk: Send in Mom

by Associated Press
| March 5, 2020 1:30 PM

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge took an unusual step Thursday to try to persuade an inmate to testify about a high-profile death row case: He asked the inmate's mother to have a word with him in private.

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