COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man accused of killing his mother and stepfather in Woodland Park when he was 15 years old will be tried as an adult.
The Gazette reports the ruling by a Teller County district judge has resolved months of legal wrangling, clearing the way for 41-year-old Jacob Ind to receive a trial date on multiple counts of first-degree murder in the 1992 deaths of Pamela and Kermode Johnson.
Ind was previously tried and convicted as an adult, but he was granted a new trial in January 2017 after a judge ruled his rights were violated when his court-appointed attorney blocked him from taking the stand.
Ind has said the killings were motivated by longstanding physical and sexual abuse.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 5.
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Information from: The Gazette, http://www.gazette.com