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Arizona highway shootings suspect released from custody
Source: Reuters
World | Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:03pm EDT
Arizona highway shootings suspect released from custody
PHOENIX | BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
A man accused in a string of freeway shootings that terrorized the Phoenix area last year was released from custody after defense lawyers on Tuesday called the ballistics evidence into question.
Judge Warren Granville reduced the bail for Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, to nothing from $150,000 after Merritt's attorneys told an emergency hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court that an expert prosecution witness now said the reported ballistics match "does not exist."
"There's no evidence against him that he's responsible for this," defense attorney Jason Lamm told the court. "He is no more the I-10 freeway shooter than, respectfully, you are your honor."
Granville ordered that Merritt wear an electronic monitoring device and report back to court on May 18.
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Arizona highway shootings suspect released from custody
PHOENIX | BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
A man accused in a string of freeway shootings that terrorized the Phoenix area last year was released from custody after defense lawyers on Tuesday called the ballistics evidence into question.
Judge Warren Granville reduced the bail for Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, to nothing from $150,000 after Merritt's attorneys told an emergency hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court that an expert prosecution witness now said the reported ballistics match "does not exist."
"There's no evidence against him that he's responsible for this," defense attorney Jason Lamm told the court. "He is no more the I-10 freeway shooter than, respectfully, you are your honor."
Granville ordered that Merritt wear an electronic monitoring device and report back to court on May 18.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-arizona-shootings-idUSKCN0XG2HH
