Since I have mentioned it in the past, fairness compels me to note:
Erik Charles Maund is getting a new trial in his murder for hire case.
Maund, along with Bryon Brockway and Adam Carey, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire after Holly Williams and William Lanway were found dead in a car in Nashville in 2020.
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Brockway and Carey were convicted on all charges, including kidnapping resulting in death and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Maund was found not guilty of kidnapping resulting in death. The maximum sentence for federal murder-for-hire is life in prison or death.
But, you see, there was a problem:
Now a judge has ruled that an administrative mistake caused certain things that were not admitted into evidence during the trial to be shown to jurors as they deliberated. The court clerk found out when members of the media started asking about the trial exhibits after the trial was over.
One story I saw elsewhere (and can’t find again) said that the evidence mistakes (and there was more than one) inclueed an exhibit that was supposed to be redacted…and which was shown to the jury in unredacted form.
Nobody knows yet when the new trial is going to be. But, good news: this is a court in Tennessee, not Travis or Williamson county.
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