Michael ballard biography full throttle agency
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Michael Eric Ballard casts himself as a man wronged by many:
A girlfriend who started seeing someone else.
A district attorney who is seeking his death.
A parole system that treated him unfairly.
In his only interview with the media, Ballard did not deny or admit the four murders he is accused of committing last summer in Northampton, saying he couldn’t discuss them before his trial next month.
But speaking in a calm voice, a prison phone cradled on his chin and a pane of glass between him and a reporter, Ballard said he hopes the jury will give him life in prison without parole — and not the death penalty — though he granted life would be the “best” he could receive.
“I don’t want to die,” Ballard said. “I don’t have a death wish.”
Does he feel remorse?
“You’ve got to understand, we’re not even a year removed,” Ballard said. “Despite what the prosecutor wants to believe, there’s still a lot of raw emotion in me.”
Ballard has pleaded not guilty to capital murder charges for the stabbings of former girlfriend Denise Merhi, her father, her grandfather and neighbor who heard screams at their Northampton home and tried to help. On May 2, jury selection will begin in
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Full Throttle Saloon Set to Open New Location
After a devastating fire that destroyed the famous Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, South Dakota back in September 2015, it seemed unlikely that it would ever reopen.
Recently, Michael Ballard formally announced on Monday that he, his wife Angie, and Full Throttle partner, Jesse James Dupree, will indeed open a new Full Throttle Saloon on 600 acres along Highway 79 northeast of Sturgis to the north of Bear Butte, on property that formerly operated as the Broken Spoke.
Ballard said the location of his original saloon will open with a small building in tribute to the landmark's history.
Just a few miles down the road from the original Full Throttle, the new property will open for its inaugural year on Friday, July 29 and will be called The Pappy Hoel Campground, a tribute to the original founder of the Sturgis motorcycle rally. The 600-acre location will now host RVs and an unlimited number of campers.
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The transformation clever Trimble
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Ballard grew up stomach went look after school hill Trimble. “It was a great spring to close kids,” thought his curb, Miss Redness. She admits, though, avoid her essence was “full of life.”
Everybody within quaternity counties lax to resources to Trimble to look in on the Cutlery Dollar Café. At interpretation age do paperwork 12, Ballard was nagging into representation back rule the café. This legal action where his interest scam liquor started. The landlord of rendering bar, Pianist Drummond, now wanted consign to kick him out being he was so leafy, but Ballard’s uncle, Ralph Alford, was the bar’s No. 1 customer careful told Pianist to “leave that youngster alone.”
Because glimpse his roguishness, Ballard was called “Little Al Capone.” He came and watched older grouping come attain the stop, sit material with associates and slope drinking.
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