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State wants jurors to see crime scene
Hearing Thursday in Thurber case
Traveler Staff Writer
reporter@arkcity.net
The next hearing in the Thurber case will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Cowley County Courthouse in Winfield.
Thurber, 25, is accused of killing Sanderholm, a Cowley College freshman, in January 2007. He is charged with capital murder, rape, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated criminal sodomy.
Sanderholm, 19, went missing after attending a danceline practice on the college’s Arkansas City campus on Jan. 5, 2007. Her body was found four days later.
The state filed two other motions on Friday. In these, Smith asked for a pre-trial ruling on the admissibility of photographs in the Thurber trial. The photographs are of Sanderholm’s autopsy and of a sexual assault examination that was performed during the autopsy.
In his motion seeking a ruling allowing jurors to visit sites where Thurber allegedly was seen on the day Sanderholm disappeared, Smith said that first-hand viewing of these areas would give jurors a clearer picture to aid in their deliberations than would photographs and maps.
A member of Thurber’s defense team from the Kansas State Death Penalty Defense Unit said today that the defense has had limited time since the state motions were filed, and it has not filed countermotions of its own.
“We will be opposing them in court tomorrow,” said defense attorney Ron Evans, of the prosecution’s motions.
District Court Judge Jim Pringle said in a hearing July 8, that opening statements in the trial should begin Oct. 14, after juror selection is completed.
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