but here's a link to another story about the conviction:
http://www.showmenews.com/2005/May/20050523News009.aspThis snippet was interesting:
If jurors had known about Rios’ alleged prior bad acts, a guilty verdict wouldn’t have taken nine hours, Buchan said. After jurors were removed from the courthouse, a court marshal told them about four witnesses the prosecution never got an opening to call to the stand. They were three women Rios arrested and later propositioned for sex and a Boone County deputy ready to testify why Rios lost his job as a jailer in 1999 for allegedly forging a name on a rental contract for a storage unit.
Prosecutors were unable to call those witnesses because the defense never introduced the issue of Rios’ moral character or prior bad acts.
In hearing that history, jurors felt vindicated in their decision to convict, Buchan said.
"You would probably have had deliberations for only 10 minutes if we’d known that," he said.On edit, I was looking at the original articles about the murder and the trial. The newspaper has a very well organize archive of its coverage. I didn't look through all of it, but it can be found at:
http://www.showmenews.com/RiosTrial/index.asp
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