By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALISÂ – John Allen Booth Jr.’s murder trial for last summer’s triple slaying has been postponed until Nov. 7.
John A. Booth Jr.
His defense attorney Roger Hunko told a judge yesterday a double-homicide trial he has in Yakima just got moved to mid-August.
Booth was scheduled to be tried in Lewis County Superior Court at the end of August, but Hunko expects his Yakima trial to last three to four weeks, Hunko told Judge Richard Brosey yesterday.
Brosey granted the extension, even though Lewis County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher said he preferred not to delay.
They chose November because both Brosey and Meagher are unavailable in September, and Meagher has another murder trial scheduled in October.
Booth, who turned 32 last week, is charged in the August 21 shootings of four people inside a Salkum-Onalaska area home. Found dead were David West Sr., 52, David J. West Jr., 16, and Tony E. Williams, 50, of Randle. Denise Salts, 52, survived a gunshot wound to her face.
The former Onalaska man was arrested and jailed four days later.
His former cell mate Ryan J. McCarthy, 29, of Redmond, is also charged in the case. His trial is set for the week of October 10.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
That is why I no longer live there.If I did I would be stupid every place has something bad with it but lewis county has everything wrong with it.Its ridiculous
lewis countys nothing but a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
r you freakin serious ya know why don’t the laywer tell yakima to postpone there’s this is a discrace.I’M JUST WONDERING WHAT ARE THEY REALLY WAITING FOR.IT DOESN’T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENCEST TO FIGURE THAT ONE OUT?????????????? I WONDER
what a freakin joke postponed again!!!!!!!!!!