
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 11, 1995                   TAG: 9505110075
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LEWISBURG, W.VA.                                LENGTH: Short

BEAUTY QUEEN REPLACES HER LAWYER

A former Virginia beauty queen convicted of attacking a romantic rival's family has changed her defense team for her appeal to the state Supreme Court.

Tracy Lippard has replaced trial attorney Paul Detch with Paul O. Clay Jr. of Fayetteville and George Holton Yates of Virginia Beach, Va. They have until June 30 to file her appeal.

``The appeal thing is not my type of practice,'' said Detch, a Lewisburg lawyer.

Lippard, 23, of Newport News, Va., was sentenced in January to two years in jail on seven misdemeanors, including two counts of attempted murder. Greenbrier County Circuit Judge Charles M. Lobban last week granted her a stay of sentence, a 60-day extension to file her appeal and a change of counsel.

Lippard, a former Miss Williamsburg, was accused of driving to Lewisburg in a plot to kill Melissa Weikle and her parents because Weikle was dating Todd Scott, whom Lippard also was dating. Weikle and Scott later married.

- Associated Press

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