Overview
- Judge Sid Harle denied the defense motion for a mistrial, calling the nondisclosure of a witness’s new detail negligent rather than intentional.
- He excluded the disputed portions of teacher Stephanie Hale’s testimony and allowed remedies that include playing her 2022 interview for jurors and questioning prosecutors and investigators about disclosures.
- The jury will return Thursday in Corpus Christi after proceedings were paused to address the disclosure dispute.
- Hale’s in-court statement that she saw the gunman on the south side of campus near Adrian Gonzales, which was absent from her earlier interview, prompted the defense’s Brady/Michael Morton challenge.
- Former school police officer Gonzales faces 29 counts of abandoning or endangering a child over his response to the Robb Elementary attack; he has pleaded not guilty as prosecutors argue he failed to confront the shooter.