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  • Man twice-convicted of killing wife wins third trial

    09/30/2003 11:50:34 AM PDT · by bedolido · 9 replies · 250+ views
    NW Cable News ^ | 09/30/03 | Staff Writer
    SEATTLE — A man who has served more than 12 years in prison after being convicted twice of stabbing his wife to death has won the right to a third trial. A unanimous three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals overturned the second conviction of Jerry Bartlett Jones on Monday, ruling that the trial judge wrongly barred the introduction of evidence about a neighbor that Jones says was the killer. Snohomish County prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to appeal to reinstate the conviction, proceed to a third trial or drop the matter. The case stems from the...