House Bill 305 was sparked by the Rogers case after Brooks Houck and his family secretly recorded a grand jury. But because the statute of limitations had run out, no one was charged.
Kentucky State Police never ruled the 2016 shooting a hunting accident, and the Ballard family has long believed it was a targeted attack.
Closing arguments begin Monday.
The trial of Brooks Houck and Joseph Lawson in the Crystal Rogers murder case is in its second week in Bowling Green 10 years after the mother of five disappeared in Bardstown.
Nearly a decade after Crystal Rogers vanished, the men suspected in her disappearance face a jury next week, as Bardstown waits for answers.
Nelson County Circuit Court Judge Charles Simms III has also banned cameras and electronic devices from the courtroom.
Friday, after a little over two hours of deliberation, a Warren County jury found Steve Lawson, 54.
The jury recommended a sentence of 17 years in prison. Formal sentencing will take place in Nelson County on Aug. 6.
Attorneys perform. Witnesses clam up. Judges tread more carefully. And jurors — private citizens asked to do a public duty — can find themselves turned into unwilling celebrities, dissected online for a glance or a frown that was never meant to be broadcast.
A judge declined to delay the May 27 trial of Steve Lawson, one of three defendants charged in the murder of Crystal Rogers in order to perform DNA testing on two hairs found in her car in 2015 that have not previously been tested.