Chardon High School Shooting

Because "voluminous" new evidence has emerged, a judge agreed Monday to indefinitely delay the murder trial of an 18-year-old charged in the high school shooting deaths of three students.The nature of the evidence wasn't disclosed as prosecutors and attorneys for T.J. Lane jointly asked Geauga County Common Pleas Judge David Fuhry to postpone next week's start of the trial.The judge agreed during a brief hearing and said he would schedule another hearing in late January to discuss a new trial date for the case in this tight-knit community east of Cleveland.Lane, dressed in a brown open-collar shirt and dark slacks, sat through the hearing with his hands folded on his lap amid tight courtroom security.In view of the joint motion, the judge agreed it was in the best interests of justice to delay the trial. He said it was apparent there was "voluminous" new evidence to be reviewed.Still, he said, "Nobody likes a continuance."He said a pool of jurors who had been alerted in November to be ...

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