Retrial begins for man charged in MU student's death

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 | 11:02 a.m. CDT; updated 11:49 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, July 15, 2009
BY The Associated Press

COLUMBIA — A Kansas man is going on trial a second time on charges of shooting an MU student to death outside a Columbia duplex.

Jury selection for the trial of 26-year-old Taron Crawford of Kansas City, Kan., began Tuesday in western Missouri's Johnson County. The jury is to be brought to Boone County for the trial.

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Crawford is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the November 2003 killing of Charley Blondis. The 20-year-old victim was a sophomore at the university when he was shot during a disturbance outside a house party.

Crawford was convicted on the same charges in 2004 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. But a judge later threw out the conviction, finding that Crawford's lawyer was ineffective.

 

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