The Officer Rich May Murder Trial Starts on October 19th

Rich and his Father and DI at Marine Corps Boot Camp Graduation

The 23rd day of jury selection was completed and in the morning nine additional prospective jurors were questioned for cause. One of the nine jurors passed for cause and the other eight were excused for their views on the death penalty. Of the extra 145 jurors brought in after the court ran out of jurors last week, eight jurors were passed for cause; since there was one juror who called in sick last Thursday, there will be nine jurors to fill out the five alternate juror seats. The final selection of alternate jurors will take place Monday morning at 9:00. The court will then pre-instruct the jury and the prosecution and defense opening statements will be presented in the morning. The prosecution will start presenting witnesses and evidence Monday afternoon.


The trial will be in session only on Monday and Tuesday next week. Wednesday is a court furlough day (third Wednesday of each month is a state-wide court furlough day to save money). Judge Parsons granted the defense request to be out of session on Thursday (one of the defense attorneys had a family matter to attend to). The trial is in recess on Fridays throughout the trial. So it will be a slow start with just two days of evidence. We have a full four day week the following two weeks (October 26 and November 2.)

After three weeks of motions in March and nine weeks of jury selection starting in August, it appears the trial will finally begin next week.

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