GUILTY AZ - Colin Brough, 20, killed, 3 injured in NAU shooting, Flagstaff, 9 Oct 2015

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A grand jury indicted Jones on six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of first-degree murder. The trial is set for April 4, 2017.

His attorneys have insisted from the beginning that he acted in self-defense. The Coconino County Attorney’s Office has argued in court filings that Jones had only been punched in the face when he started shooting unarmed people, not facing an imminent threat to his life.

Jones has been awaiting his trial at his parents’ house in Glendale since this April, when Coconino County Superior Court Judge Dan Slayton eliminated his $2 million bail requirement, saying Jones was not a threat to the public or a flight risk. He is now under the supervision of Maricopa County Pretrial Services, undergoes 24-hour GPS monitoring, has a curfew, and has to meet the judge’s release conditions.

 

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Judge bars Jones' self-defense statements as 'self-serving'

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Judge Dan Slayton ruled Thursday that statements by Steven Jones after the shooting of 20-year-old Colin Brough on Oct. 9, 2015, were not admissible as part of his self-defense claim against a charge of first-degree murder.

Slayton did not allow Jones’ statements to witnesses that he committed the shootings in “self-defense” as well as statements he made to police officers that he was “scared.”

Slayton said that those statements were “self-serving,” and that Jones' statements about being scared did not necessarily mean that the murder of Brough was not premeditated.

“I don’t think that being scared is a relative issue in negating intent,” Slayton said. “You can intend to kill somebody and still be scared out of your mind.”

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Prosecutors said at one point, Jones told his father his teeth were knocked out during the fight in the fall of 2015. In dashboard and body camera video of Jones’s Oct. 9 early-morning arrest, the suspect was heard saying he may throw up. Prosecutors said he had time to think about just the right thing to say and his attorneys may be planning to claim Jones suffered a concussion. The judge decided he won’t order Jones’s medical records to be released, but would reconsider this if Jones took the stand to talk about his front teeth and nausea during the trial.

Toxicology reports showed the night he was shot and killed, Colin Brough had a mix of marijuana, alprazolam (a generic form of Xanax) and booze in his system. The state wanted the defense’s expert testimonies kept out -- one of those referring to alcohol and drug intake by the victims. The judge said jurors should hear what Dr. Edward French had say.

“I will allow him to talk about the levels of intoxication, the levels of THC and the levels of benzodiazepine and the interplay with that and if he puts it into a context that the jury can understand […] assist the jurors in understanding what the interplay of those drugs might be,” Judge Slayton said.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2017/03/23/judge-rules-on-evidence-nau-shooting-steven-jones-trial/99560474/

Slayton balked at letting a former law-enforcement officer testify on Jones' behalf about use of force. But he will allow an expert to discuss the interaction of alcohol, marijuana and alprazolam, a Valium-like drug, that were in Brough's bloodstream.

Shea and Barker also wanted to block evidence showing that two of the other victims had marijuana metabolites in their urine. They argued that it was not in their bloodstreams and therefore not affecting their behavior. Slayton was not willing to accept that as fact without expert testimony.

Slayton found it relevant and thought it went to the victims' credibility as witnesses. One of the injured students had allegedly told hospital staff that he had never taken drugs in his life, but then tested positive for marijuana.

Prosecutors sought to keep out descriptions of fights and and wild parties at the apartment complex, known as "the courtyard," where the melee began.

Defense attorneys said they had no intention of besmirching the property. But Slayton nonetheless ruled that because the shooting happened on campus a few hundred feet from the apartment complex, its reputation was not relevant.

The judge and attorneys also worked toward finalizing a jury questionnaire to help weed out unqualified or prejudiced jurors.

On March 31, 240 prospective jurors will fill out those questionnaires. Those who make the initial cut will return April 4, and final selection probably will take the rest of that week. Attorneys speculated that opening arguments could take place as early as April 12.

 

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Trial begins for Steven Jones in Northern Arizona University shooting

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Trial is expected to begin Tuesday for Steven Jones, the former Northern Arizona University student who shot four young men during a melee that spilled onto campus in October 2015.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys culled through questionnaires from prospective jurors on Friday, and jury selection was to begin in earnest Tuesday morning.

An assistant to Coconino County Superior Court Judge Dan Slayton said the judge thought that a jury of 14 — 12 jurors and two alternates — could be impaneled quickly enough to begin opening statements on Wednesday.

The jury questionnaire said that the trial could last as long as five weeks.

Trial will be shown on this site:

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NAU shooting trial: Was Steven Jones an 'assassin' or defending himself?

To the prosecution, Steven Jones was "an assassin emerging from the darkness." He went on a premeditated rampage, the prosecutor said, unloading 10 bullets into four young men, leaving one of them dead on the Northern Arizona University campus in October 2015.

But Jones' attorney said he was "surrounded, bullied, threatened and attacked" by strangers. He was in fear for his life and made a split-second decision to defend himself.

A jury, over the next five weeks, will have to make a decision:

Did Jones commit first-degree murder when he shot Colin Brough, 20? And did he commit aggravated assault when he shot and wounded Nick Piring, Nick Prato and Kyle Zientek, also all 20.

Or did he act in self-defense?

Barker painted a picture of the incident, saying Jones was on a "rampage," and it was "because his pride was hurt."

Jones and his friends were outside the apartment complex where Brough and Piring lived, and where multiple parties were winding down. Barker said that one of Jones' friends knocked on the door, and Brough and Piring and their friends came out to confront them and ask them to leave.

Then, a young man who had nothing to do with the confrontation suddenly punched Jones in the face, knocking off his glasses and running away.

Outraged, Barker said, Jones walked more than 150 feet to his car, retrieved his gun from the glove box and then walked more than 90 feet to where a "verbal discussion" was taking place.

Jones "was armed for battle, but it was a battle only he knew about," Barker said.

The defense painted a picture of a young man who acted in self-defense, with only seconds to respond to physical threats.

Jones was “sucker punched” so hard that his glasses flew off. As he ran to his car in the parking lot, he turned and saw at least two people chasing him, said Davidson, the defense attorney.

The defense doesn’t dispute that Jones went to his car, retrieved his gun and then walked 90 feet to where a crowd was gathered. Jones announced he had a gun and was “just trying to protect himself,” Davidson said, when Brough turned and lunged at him.

Evidence presented during the trial will show that the presence of “stippling,” that is gunshot residue around Brough’s wounds, indicates that he was 2 feet away, if not closer, to Jones when he was shot, Davidson said.

Davidson disputed that the other shootings were unprovoked.

 

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NAU shooting victim Nick Piring: 'I never did see the gun'

Nick Piring testified he started jogging toward the sound of Brough's voice from behind his Flagstaff apartment building, running across the street and onto the big sidewalk in front of Mountain View Hall, a sprawling dorm on the Northern Arizona University campus.

Brough, 20, argued with three young men Piring didn't know. They exchanged "f" words; Brough told the other to leave, they said he couldn't make them.

Then Piring saw a light from the parking lot.

"I thought it was a ... police officer coming to break up the argument," he testified before the jury on Thursday.

Brough saw the light, too, And he turned toward it. He took a few steps toward the light, then dropped face first, landing in the parking lot.

Piring didn't hear the gunshots, and he didn't know Brough had been fatally wounded. He started to run toward his friend. He jumped over some low bushes. The light turned toward him. It was blinding.

Two bullets cut him down.

He later learned the light was a flashlight attached to a 40-caliber handgun.

Thursday's testimony began with a police officer who was one of the first on the scene and showed body-camera footage of the chaos immediately following the shooting. He was followed by a detective who showed computerized photos that allowed the jury to see the shooting scene from different angles.

Piring's testimony was the most riveting as he described seeing his friend fall. But he wavered on cross examination from defense attorney Joshua Davidson, who read passages from interviews Piring gave in the hospital immediately after the shooting.

"You told police a different story that night, didn't you?" Davidson said.

At least twice Piring told officers he heard shots, and in his original police statements it appeared he was more involved in the altercation and on the scene longer; even though the incident may have taken only 30 seconds.

When confronted about the inconsistencies in his accounts, Piring said, "I was in shock" during his first interview with police in the hospital.

Composed as he testified, Piring said no one was attacking Jones when he shot. And he said that Brough never "lunged" toward Jones, as Jones has contended.

 

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Witnesses testify about deadly NAU shooting - April 7th

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Waked told jurors at first she just thought the commotion was just a bunch of drunk guys messing around.

“Words started escalating when I heard gunshots. I was taken aback. I didn't see that coming,” said Waked.

The NAU junior testified that she did not see the physical altercation, but on cross-examination, Jones’ attorney got Waked to say that she did see a guy wearing white charge at someone just before the shooting took place.

Scollard, 23, said she looked out her dorm window after hearing the shots. Scollard told jurors she remembers seeing someone in a white shirt charging someone and then hearing someone say, “I don’t want to do this.”

After the first few shots, Scollard said she told her roommate to call 911 and she ran outside to help the fallen victims.

“I ran to the first person that was on the ground and that would be Nick Piring. I put my left palm on his right shoulder, my right palm on his hip. He was screaming and crying. I remember pretty much holding him. I was telling the boys everything is going to be alright. I remember the boys … everyone is still screaming and there was another round of gunshots,” said Scollard.

The fitness and wellness major was visibly upset as she recalled seeing Brough on the ground behind her, fatally shot.

“I kept looking back at Colin and seeing him try to pretty much live, you know? Struggling. But I couldn’t leave Nick. Like I said, 'I can’t, I can’t leave you, you’re bleeding pretty bad and I’m just going to stay with you.' And I was screaming at the boys, someone to run to Colin and put their hands on him and try to stop any blood. Anything that they could do,” said Scollad.

NAU graduate Leonard was visiting a friend on the fourth floor of Mountain View Hall when the shooting took place.

Leonard said she heard arguing and walked to the window and within thirty seconds saw the shooting. She described the shooter as looking talk and lanky from her view.

“There was a light on the gun. He seemed confident in what he was doing. He was standing shoulders back,” said Leonard of Jones, who she did not know at the time.

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On Friday April 7, trial continued with nine more witnesses including Nick Acevedo, a friend of murder victim Colin Brough. Acevedo said that he ran up to the scene to grab Brough when Jones pointed a gun at him. Acevedo explained that he called Jones a freak and psychopath and Jones started crying after that while Acevedo held Brough securing his wound.

The trial will be in recess until this Thursday and is expected to last for five weeks.

 

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2 friends of Jones testify in NAU shooting trial

Two men who were walking with Jones that night took the stand. Both had become friends with Jones at the beginning of the school year. They were headed to Jones’ car when they say they were confronted by a “hostile” group of students.

"One of them punched Steven,” says sophomore Jacob Mike. “That’s when we’re like, 'OK this is serious.'”

“I started freaking out,” says sophomore Shay McConnell. “Like, what the heck is going on?”

Both men say they were then pushed to the ground. They say they lost track of one another and the next thing they saw was Jones with a gun.

“He had two hands on it and one foot forward,” says Mike. “I saw people move towards Steven and then shots were fired.”

“One of the two men looked like he lunged towards Steven,” says McConnell. “Then Steven fired two shots and turned towards the other guy and shot one shot towards him.”

NAU shooting trial: Medical examiner takes the stand

Attorneys focused on bullet trajectory Friday in the murder trial of a former Northern Arizona University student Steven Jones.

On Friday, county medical examiner Dr. Lawrence Czarnecki testified about details gathered as he performed Brough’s autopsy.

Czarnecki said one bullet went through Brough’s chest, and a second bullet went through his shoulder. He testified both bullets entered the body, and traveled down and back through the torso. Prosecutors and defense attorneys presented different theories to explain the trajectory.

The prosecution suggested Jones somehow standing above Brough when he fired, whether Jones was taller or standing on an incline.

“That would affect the possibilities of trajectory,” said Czarnecki.

 

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Jones trial: Friend of victims saw bright light, heard four "pops'

“I was across the street from the parking lot and a cluster of people were outside. I couldn’t hear what was going on, but it was some kind of altercation,” Volpo said.

He continued, stating that he saw a bright LED light.

“I saw this light approaching and it got my attention because it was so bright I thought it was something a police officer or security guard would use,” Volpo said, referring to the moments before Jones fired his weapon. “I didn’t see the shots because my friend Nick Pletke distracted me and then I hear four loud pops.”

Volpo said that he thought the “pops,” were fireworks because he was not expecting a gun on a college campus so he ran over to the incident.

“I ran up to the parking lot and saw my friends Nick Piring and Colin Brough on the ground, bleeding and I assumed they had been shot so I put my hands up to signal, ‘Don’t shoot,’” Volpo said raising his hands in front of the jury to the level of his face.

The defense went after Volpo’s credibility by stating that he did not try to talk to the police at any point that night, yet he later gave a deposition.

“Do you recall saying that you had a front-row seat to this incident?” Jones’ attorney Joshua Davidson asked. “In fact you thought you and Nick Pletke were critical witnesses in this case correct?”

Volpo responded to Davidson’s question by saying that he did not think he was a critical witness, but an “important” one.

Davidson intensified his questioning,

“OK, so if you considered yourself as an information source did you ever attempt to call the police and let them know you were a witness?” Davidson asked.

Volpo responded that he did not try to contact that police, assuming that they would contact him.

 

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NAU shooting trial: 'Most intense pain you’ve ever felt,' gunshot victim testifies

“How did you know you were shot?” the prosecutor asked.

“Do you want me to explain?” the young man answered.

“It’s the most intense pain you’ve ever felt in your life.”

The Steven Jones murder trial is in its third week of testimony in the Coconino County courthouse in Flagstaff. The prosecution was expected to rest its case Thursday.

On Wednesday, two of the shooting victims took the stand.

Prato described watching from across the street as a flashlight beam moved across an NAU parking lot toward Brough and Piring, who were standing at the far end. It would turn out that the light was affixed to the barrel of Jones' 9mm Glock pistol.

When he heard the shots, Prato ran toward them.

He found Brough lying on his back on the pavement, and he took him in his arms.

“He was on his back. His shirt was covered with blood,” Prato quietly told the jury. "His eyes were wide open. He was looking up at the sky. He didn’t say a word.”

Then Prato said he tried to get a look at the shooter, Jones, who was either kneeling or sitting on the ground some feet away, where he had been knocked down by other bystanders.

“I’d never seen him before in my life,” Prato said.

But he saw him reach behind his back.

“I took a couple steps forward. I saw the gun pulled on me. That’s all I remember.”

Prato was shot in the neck. He clamped his hand over the wound and ran back to the apartment complex to wait for an ambulance.

That has been a frequent occurrence over the course of the trial: Stories have varied widely, depending on whether it was Brough’s fraternity brothers, Jones’ companions that evening, or uninvolved bystanders who were telling them.

The fraternity brothers described smaller numbers of people present at the party, and they didn't see that there were any punches thrown, other than the sucker punch one partygoer threw at Jones early in the altercation.

Jones’ two friends — who did not think Jones was ultimately justified in shooting — described being pushed to the ground and having others throw drunken punches at them.

Pletke testified that he saw Brough and Piring standing 10 feet away from Jones when they were shot. But a medical examiner said last week that the muzzle of Jones' gun was no more than 2 feet away from Brough when it fired.

Defense attorneys Burgess McCowan and Joshua Davidson have begun questioning whether the fraternity brothers are synchronizing their stories.

 

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NAU shooter Jones cites punch, pile-on in shooting

NAU shooter Steven Jones got right to the point as he took the stand Thursday as the first defense witness in his first-degree murder trial.

“If I didn’t fire my gun I would not be sitting here," he told the jury.

According to the defendant, the altercation between himself and the victims started with a sucker punch.

“Someone punched me, it rocked my world and knocked my glasses off,” Jones said. “I fell to the ground and then everything went black.”

“They grabbed the back of my shirt and I started screaming and running and they were yelling get the (expletive) back here -- what are you running from,” Jones said, noticeably nervous on the stand.

“They were chasing me and I reached into my back left pocket to get my key fob and I mashed all the buttons to try to unlock my car,” Jones said referring to the key that unlocks his car. “They were saying I am going to (expletive) you up and we are going to (expletive) kill you, (expletive).”

In a panicked state Jones opened his car door and went to his glovebox to pull out his handgun. He “chambered a round instinctively,” turned on the tactical flashlight on his weapon and reportedly yelled, “Don’t (expletive) move! I have a gun, get on the ground!”

Jones told the jury that Brough and another other victim, Nick Piring, “charged” at him from a distance of what seemed to be “five to ten feet at the time,” a distance that the defendant admitted was wrong during his testimony.

Jones said that Brough ran at him with clenched fist ready to attack.

“His hands were up, full force, running at me, looking me dead in the eye,” Jones said quietly on the stand.

It was in that moment Jones decided to fire his weapon, killing Brough with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest and hitting Piring in the arm and hip.

Jurors quiz Steven Jones about hows and whys of NAU campus shootings

Sometimes jury questions can show which way a jury is leaning. Friday morning’s questions showed mostly that jurors had been paying attention. And they offered insights into areas where the lawyers didn’t go: Jones’ extensive gun training, for example, and his knowledge of first aid.

The first question out of the box asked about gun safety and who taught Jones to how to shoot. Jones said he first learned from a 4-H Club at age 8 or 9, but that he had extensive tutelage from his father, who trains law-enforcement officers and is certified by the National Rifle Association.

The second and several subsequent questions quizzed Jones about his vision. His glasses were knocked off at the beginning of the fray that led to the shootings, and he claimed to have bad vision but still asserted he could see at a distance his friends being menaced by a crowd of five to 10 people.

The judge allowed 19 juror questions. Some verged on confrontational: Why did he say he shot the first two students intentionally? Why did he tell police that no one else did anything wrong? And why did he walk toward the young men after he retrieved his gun from the car?

His answers were consistent: That he felt he was faced with an immediate threat, and he believed his friends were still in danger.

A juror asked, “Why didn’t you aim for the legs?” To which he responded that gun training — whether law enforcement, military or civilians — teaches to aim for center body mass.

Testimony wraps up in NAU murder trial; case goes to jury next week

Testimony has concluded in the Steven Jones murder trial for the October 2015 shooting at Northern Arizona University. That shooting left one student dead and three others injured.

Friday, Jones was back on the stand after giving testimony on Thursday and facing cross-examination by the prosecution.

Court will resume Tuesday at 9 a.m. with jury instructions and closing statements.

Jones faces charges of first-degree murder in the death of Brough and aggravated assault for the shootings of Piring, Plato and Zientek.

 

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A prosecutor on Tuesday portrayed a former Northern Arizona University student as a killer who carried out "his own deranged sense of justice" when he opened fire on a group of people during a drunken fight near the campus.

"The defendant didn't just retaliate with his fists. He escalated it, and he came back with a gun. He wanted to teach someone a lesson," prosecutor Ammon Barker said. "Again, this is not self-defense."

Barker showed the jury autopsy photos of Colin Brough, who was killed, in arguing that Jones should be found guilty of murder.

Attorney Burges McCowan, who represents Jones, said his client waited until the last possible moment to open fire as he was being chased by upper classmen after he was hit in the face.

"He didn't want to take the chance. He had to stop them," McCowan told the packed courtroom.

McCowan said Jones holstered his gun after shooting Brough and another student who chased him and started to provide aid to Brough. But he was then attacked by others and shot two other students in the struggle, McCowan said, characterizing the confrontation not as a fist fight but rather a "mob attack."

Prosecutors didn't seek the death penalty. A first-degree murder conviction carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Jurors have the option of returning lesser verdicts that carry lighter sentences, such as second-degree murder and manslaughter.

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Deliberations are expected to resume Wednesday in the trial of a former Northern Arizona University student charged with murder and aggravated assault.

A Coconino County Superior Court jury got the case Tuesday afternoon after lawyers made closing arguments at the trial of Steven Jones.

NAU shooting trial: Jurors to sort through different versions of story after closing arguments

 

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NAU shooting jury suspends deliberations while Steven Jones' defense team seeks mistrial

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The judge in the Northern Arizona University shooting trial suspended jury deliberations for the day Wednesday amid concerns that jurors were not given complete information about when defendant Steven Jones first asserted that he acted in self-defense after shooting four students in October 2015.

Jones' defense attorneys have asked for a mistrial as a result.

Coconino County Superior Court Judge Dan Slayton will hold a hearing at 9 a.m. Thursday at which prosecutors and defense attorneys can argue for or against a mistrial or suggest other remedies — for example, permitting further closing arguments or allowing the jury to hear additional information.

"The jury cannot be left with the impression that the only self-defense arguments (that Jones made) were made at the police station," Slayton told the attorneys during a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning. Jurors were seen filing out of the courthouse shortly after the judge concluded the meeting with attorneys.

 

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Jury resumes deliberations in Jones trial

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After a three-day break, jury deliberations that will decide the fate of NAU shooter Steven Jones are set to resume Tuesday at 9 a.m.

The jury, which began deliberations on April 25, was unable to reach a verdict by the end of last week over four days of deliberation.

Jurors were sent out early on Wednesday due to the defense’s demand for a mistrial after Prosecutor Ammon Barker made statements in his closing arguments, which implied that Jones did not make self-defense claims until he was in police custody.

Judge Dan Slayton did not grant a mistrial but did allow previously precluded statements to be admitted into evidence.

 

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Judge declares mistrial in NAU shooter trial

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A mistrial has been declared in the case of NAU shooter Steven Jones,

The Coconino County Superior Court jury began its deliberations on April 25, but members were sent home the next day so Slayton could consider a defense motion for a mistrial over a portion of the prosecution's closing argument.

After a three-day break, deliberations resumed Tuesday but jurors sent a note to Slayton saying they were deadlocked.

If prosecutors move forward, Slayton said there will be a hearing in June. He set a tentative trial date of Aug. 1 with the expectation that it would be continued until a later date.

 

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The retrial for NAU shooter Steven Jones has been postponed to October 10, according to court documents.

 

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Publicity creates potential complications in NAU shooter retrial

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Judge Dan Slayton expressed his concerns in front of Deputy County Attorney Ammon Barker and Jones’ defense attorney Joshua Davidson during a case management conference at the Coconino County Superior Courthouse.

“I was thinking over the past few days that we should probably talk about trial publicity,” Slayton said. “I think it will be difficult to find jurors who have no knowledge of the case, and whether we do questionnaires or not it will be crucial to ferret out those jurors who followed the case and find out who they are.”

 

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Judge: NAU shooting suspect Steven Jones' retrial date won't budge

With a prosecutor in the courtroom and Jones and his attorneys attending by telephone, Judge Dan Slayton set a date next month to hear arguments on whether the Coconino County Attorney's Office should be disqualified from prosecuting the case.

Slayton also insisted Jones' October retrial date is firm.

NAU shooting retrial: Steven Jones wants county attorney disqualified for conflict of interest

 

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Judge refuses to remove prosecutor from NAU shooter's murder trial

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Despite what he called "missteps" and "ill-considered actions" on the part of prosecutors, a judge on Friday refused to disqualify the Coconino County Attorney's Office from the Steven Jones murder case for the appearance of conflict of interest.

However, Coconino County Superior Court Judge Dan Slayton invited defense attorneys to take his decision to the Arizona Court of Appeals because he felt the circumstances were unique and there was no case law to guide his ruling.

If that happens, Slayton said he would consider delaying the start of the retrial beyond the Oct. 10 date to which he has been firmly committed.

 

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NAU shooting trial of Steven Jones postponed again — until March 2018

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2017/10/04/nau-shooting-trial-steven-jones-postponed-again-until-march-2018/732232001/

The retrial of accused Northern Arizona University shooter Steven Jones won’t happen in October because a member of his defense team is medically unable to proceed to trial at that time.

Coconino County Superior Court Judge Dan Slayton on Wednesday set a new trial date for March 27, 2018, despite objections from prosecutor Ammon Barker.

 

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A retrial is scheduled for March 27, 2018

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