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Sheley Prosecutors Want Delay
Prosecutors in the Knox County murder case against accused spree killer Nicholas Sheley could be delayed again after the judge hearing the case ordered a near-immediate trial now that Sheley is representing himself.

Prosecutors filed during a Case Management Conference Wednesday a motion to reconsider the trial's setting -- in this case, that means the date the trial could be held.

There is a 160 day window with which someone can be tried in a case once they've been convicted in another case, and Sheley was convicted in 2009 of an assault on Knox County Jailhouse employees.

However, a motion states that due to a number of delays attributed to the defense and Sheley's now-former defense team, Judge James Stewart ordered a trial to begin next month.

Prosecutors claim there's no way they, Sheley, or their witnesses will be ready by then, and ask that the trial should be scheduled to start before October 1st instead.

The motion claims that the prosecution will take about three-weeks to present all their evidence, and call over 100 witnesses.

A hearing on the motion has been scheduled for a week from Friday, however, it may be re-scheduled because Stewart says he's been called to jury duty.

Sheley faces nearly a dozen-and-a-half murder and other charges for the late-June, 2008 death of 65-year old Ronald Randall.


(Nicholas Sheley. WGIL News File Photo.)
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