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Jury selected in sexual assault trial of former Baylor football player
WACO, TX (KXXV) -
On Tuesday afternoon, a jury was selected for the sexual assault trial of a former Baylor University football player.
Shawn Oakman was indicted on a sexual assault charge, he is accused of raping a woman in 2016.
The jury selection process for the 26-year-old was expected to start on Monday but it was delayed after 19th District Judge Ralph Strother recused himself from the trial.
This after defense attorney Alan Bennett filed a motion asking for him to step down from the case.
Dallas Judge Mike Snipes was appointed to the case and on Tuesday morning, he had a hearing for the motions filed by Bennett to dismiss the case and disqualify prosecutors.
Bennett argued prosecutors met with 19th District Judge Ralph Strother without the presence of the defense last week to request records to be unsealed.
He claims McLennan County District Attorney’s Office should have filed a motion to ask for the documents to be unsealed.
The McLennan County District Attorney's Office claimed that it asked the judge if subpoenas were unsealed and he replied they shouldn't have been.
Judge Strother testified in the hearing said last Wednesday, the prosecutors approached him while he was in recess for another trial.
He said he had a brief encounter with prosecutors. At that time, Strother stated prosecutors suggested it was improper to seal subpoenas.
Strother said if they were entitled to see the subpoenas, he would unseal the 11 envelopes with the sealed documents.
According to Bennett, the envelopes contained subpoenas but also medical records, which were expected to be used by the defense.
Snipes decided to deny the motions after hearing arguments from both sides.
http://www.kxxv.com/story/40029035/jury-selected-in-sexual-assault-trial-of-former-baylor-football-player
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UNSEALED: Indictment: Man killed brother's family over missing money
FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) - Suspicious of his brother over missing money from two companies they owned at the New Jersey shore, Keith Caneiro emailed two business associates last fall, saying he was going to cut off further payments to his brother, Paul.
The next day, Keith Caneiro, his wife and their two young children were found dead in their burning mansion in New Jersey horse country. Paul Caneiro was arrested on arson and other charges.
On Monday, authorities unsealed court documents charging Paul Caneiro with murdering his brother, sister-in-law, a niece and nephew, detailing evidence recovered tying him to the killings including clothing and a knife both smeared with blood.
An indictment charges Paul Caneiro, 51, with murder, felony murder, aggravated arson and a weapons offense. He also faces counts of theft, misapplication of entrusted property and hindering his own apprehension.FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) - Suspicious of his brother over missing money from two companies they owned at the New Jersey shore, Keith Caneiro emailed two business associates last fall, saying he was going to cut off further payments to his brother, Paul.
The next day, Keith Caneiro, his wife and their two young children were found dead in their burning mansion in New Jersey horse country. Paul Caneiro was arrested on arson and other charges.
On Monday, authorities unsealed court documents charging Paul Caneiro with murdering his brother, sister-in-law, a niece and nephew, detailing evidence recovered tying him to the killings including clothing and a knife both smeared with blood.
An indictment charges Paul Caneiro, 51, with murder, felony murder, aggravated arson and a weapons offense. He also faces counts of theft, misapplication of entrusted property and hindering his own apprehension.V
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/indictment-man-killed-brothers-family-over-missing-money
UNSEALED: Christensen's lawyers: 'This matter has not been handled competently by the defense'
URBANA — At a hearing Monday and in a recently unsealed motion, lawyers for accused kidnapper and killer Brendt Christensen apologized for how they handled their request to delay the start of his trial to July 1.
U.S. District Judge James Shadid, who also admonished them Monday, is expected to rule today on their request.
"Counsel apologizes to the court and the government," Christensen's lawyers wrote Feb. 8. "This matter has not been handled competently by the defense."
If he is convicted of kidnapping and killing visiting University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang, Christensen's lawyers plan to argue that he has a severe mental illness to avoid the death penalty.
They initially asked to delay the trial to October because their retained psychiatrist wouldn't be available until then. They accompanied that Feb. 8 motion to continue the trial, currently scheduled to begin in April, with a sealed motion that was unsealed Monday.
It lays out why the defense didn't seek a delay until earlier this month, even though at least one of his lawyers knew since November that the psychiatrist they retained wouldn't be ready by April.
After being retained Oct. 29 and hearing of the April trial date, the psychiatrist emailed Christensen attorney Julie Brain on Nov. 3 to say he could not "do a trial that soon."
Brain, who is handling the mental-health portion of Christensen's defense, replied that there was "very little chance" the trial would occur in April and that the "psychiatrist's unavailability could be 'an additional' argument for continuing the trial," the defense's unsealed motion said.
The psychiatrist said the earliest he'd be available would be the fall of 2019.
"These email (sic) were not shared with the rest of the defense team," the motion said.
Two days later, Brain told the defense team that the psychiatrist wouldn't be ready in April, and again six days later, that the earliest the psychiatrist would be done was this summer.
"The defense team discussed filing a motion to continue immediately but ultimately decided to wait in order to see how much progress could be made," the motion said.
At Monday's hearing, Assistant Federal Defender Robert Tucker clarified that the entire defense team was not aware until February that the psychiatrist wouldn't be available.
In their motion, they said that on Feb. 4, after they tried to impress upon the psychiatrist the need to be ready in April, "the psychiatrist told the team he had made it clear when he was retained he could not testify at a trial in April," the motion said.
The next day, Brain confirmed this with the rest of the defense team, according to the motion.
The Federal Public Defender for the Central District of Illinois, Thomas Patton, then contacted the psychiatrist, who said that "if he had been told the case would go to trial in April, or that that was a real possibility, he would not have agreed to act as an expert in the case."
Christensen's lawyers said they had "always intended to file a motion to continue" and had shared that with the court, and had "proceeded with the hope the psychiatrist would be able to complete the necessary document review, examinations of Mr. Christensen, and interviews of collateral sources before the scheduled trial date, but with the knowledge that it would be extremely difficult for the psychiatrist to do so."
Shadid denied their October request, calling it "ridiculous" at a hearing earlier this month, and asked for a reasonable proposal.
The defense came back with a request for July 1 after finding a new psychiatrist that could be ready by then.
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http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2019-02-26/christensens-lawyers-matter-has-not-been-handled-competently-the-defense.html