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A jury of 15 people, including three alternatives, were seated Tuesday, and opening statements will begin Wednesday morning for defendants Brooks Houck and Joseph Lawson.
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“If the defendants had not intentionally misled a judge with a false affidavit, there would have been no search warrant for officers to execute and no fatal shooting.”
Steve Lawson also has given about 20 hours of contradictory testimony and information about the case, Brooks Houck's attorney Brian Butler told a Nelson County judge at a hearing Monday
Here's what you can expect to learn on Monday when Brooks Houck is in court.
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Attorneys for Brooks Houck will argue why his trial should be separated from the other two suspects in the case — father and son Steve and Joseph Lawson.
Brooks Houck and Joseph Lawson will not appear in court this week.
Steve Lawson is scheduled to appear in Nelson Circuit Court Thursday morning.
Steve Lawson said in a jail phone conversation that he and his son, Joseph, picked up Crystal Rogers vehicle in the Woodlawn subdivision when she disappeared in 2015, the same place investigators recently searched for her body, according to court records.
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Brooks Houck, Joseph Lawson and Steve Lawson are all charged in connection with the death of Crystal Rogers.
The appeal, filed in Nelson Circuit Court Tuesday morning, comes one day after Nelson County Circuit Court Judge Charles Simms III denied a request by Houck's attorneys to lower the bond to $500,000 with GPS monitoring.