PARKERSBURG - A January trial date has been set for a suspended Wood County Schools employee.
John Robert Coe, 50, 43 Willowbrook Drive, Parkersburg, was the director of attendance and home services for Wood County Schools was arraigned Wednesday in Wood County Circuit Court.
Coe's trial date was set for Jan. 13. Third Judicial Circuit Judge Robert Holland Jr., set a pre-trial motions hearing for Jan. 4.
Coe entered pleas of innocent to the charges of fleeing from an officer while under the influence of alcohol, third-offense driving under the influence, third-offense driving under the combined influence of alcohol and any controlled substance or other drug and third-offense driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. Coe was indicted on the charges in a special session of the grand jury on July 9, one month after he was arrested and charged.
Coe has two prior convictions for driving under the influence on Feb. 13, 2007 and April 29, 2005.
On July 15 Wood County's three judges recused themselves from the case. Last week the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals appointed Holland to the case. Holland serves in the third judicial circuit covering Pleasants, Ritchie and Doddridge counties.
Holland granted Coe permission to drive to and from AA meetings and he ordered Coe to check in weekly with the probation office for the third judicial circuit.
