{"id":2393,"date":"2010-10-07T19:14:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T22:52:23","slug":"onalaskan-pleads-not-guilty-in-death-of-nickolas-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"Onalaskan pleads not guilty in death of Nickolas Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHEHALIS – A mother holding her baby and another mother who has lost her only child sat on opposite sides of the courtroom this morning as 29-year-old James W. Taylor faced a judge for the second time this week in connection with last year’s alcohol-poisoning death of Onalaska teenager Nickolas Barnes.<\/p>\n

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James W. Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n

“My client is a father of four, has a full time job and had never been in trouble with the law,” Centralia attorney Don Blair told the judge.<\/p>\n

Taylor was locked up Tuesday after he was summoned to Lewis County Superior Court more than a year after Nickolas, 15, died after playing drinking games with vodka at an underage party in Taylor’s Onalaska home.<\/p>\n

Blair asked Judge James Lawler to lower Taylor’s bail. Deputy Prosecutor Steve Scott opposed the request. Lawler reduced bail to $10,000.<\/p>\n

Taylor is charged with second-degree manslaughter, furnishing liquor to minors and failing to summon assistance.<\/p>\n

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Nickolas Barnes<\/p><\/div>\n

Prosecutors allege Taylor purchased beer and allowed nine teenagers to drink the night of Sept. 18 last year. Charging documents say after Nickolas and a 16-year-old boy downed more than 11 shots of vodka, Nickolas passed out in the front yard, where his friends removed his clothes and wrote on his body with a black marker.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors allege Taylor told the teenagers to “let him sleep it off.”<\/p>\n

The Onalaska High School sophomore died in a hospital on Sept. 21. Prosecutors say Nickolas’s blood alcohol level was .32, which is four times the amount which an adult would be illegally intoxicated if driving.<\/p>\n

In the audience for Taylor’s arraignment was his wife, holding the child and Nickolas’s mother, uncle and grandmother.<\/p>\n

He pleaded not guilty to each of the nine charges.<\/p>\n

A trial date has not been set. Taylor was released from jail at mid-day today.
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Read “Remembering Nickolas Barnes” from Thursday Sept. 23, 2010 here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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