Morgan Junction murder trial: Still in ‘pre-trial motions’ phase

Following up on our report from last weekend that the trial was about to begin for Lovett Chambers, charged with shooting and killing Travis Hood in Morgan Junction two years ago: gavel.jpgThe King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office says pre-trial motions continued throughout this week and will continue next week, so the trial is not expected to get to opening statements until week after next. Those motions decide matters large and small, from what evidence will and won’t be admitted to how often the defendant can get a haircut during the trial (answer: weekly). Both sides have laid out their cases in trial briefs as well as motions, hundreds and hundreds of pages worth – some documents so big, we can’t get them to download through the online system. We’ve reported before that Chambers’ lawyers are expected to focus on self-defense as well as post-traumatic stress disorder; one recent document contends that the latter is due to what he went through in prison when he was much younger. According to court documents, his record has been clean for more than 30 years. Chambers is on trial for second-degree murder, reduced last summer from the original first-degree charge.

1 Reply to "Morgan Junction murder trial: Still in 'pre-trial motions' phase"

  • WS Mom January 10, 2014 (11:05 pm)

    My heart goes out to the victim’s family & friends! These kinds of cases can get rescheduled over & over again! It is horrible to stretch this out for so long!! The families need to be able to close this to be able to move on with their grief & their lives!

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