Victim’s Stepdad Told To Pay Dixie Chicks Singer’s Legal Costs
First Published: April 18, 2010 11:38 AM EDT Credit: Associated Press
Caption Dixie Chicks on the Grammy stageLITTLE 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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