Saturday, January 14, 2012

Nicholas Horner's trial on hold

Jury selection in Pa. soldier's double-murder trial halted after insanity ruling appealed
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: January 14, 2012


HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered a halt to jury selection in the death penalty trial of an Iraq war veteran accused of having killed two people during the robbery of a sandwich shop.

Justice Seamus McCaffery issued a one-paragraph ordered late Friday afternoon halting the Blair County proceedings in the trial of 31-year-old Nicholas Horner.

Dickey contends that his client was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and couldn't tell right from wrong when he killed a clerk and bystander during a 2009 robbery at an Altoona Subway restaurant.
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