The trial of the man charged with the murder of Kathryn Pokorny has been continued a third time. Slater who is charged with murder, criminal deviate conduct, and robbery was to stand trial July 23.
Slater faces the death penalty if convicted.
Bradford continued the trial a third time Wednesday after Germann argued that evidence which Prosecuting Attorney James Douglas released to him April 4 is exculpatory tends to point to the guilt of some other person and that it materially alters the defense strategy which he and Soliday had planned to pursue. The practical effect of the production of this exculpatory evidence at this time, Germann wrote in a motion filed May 3, is that counsel for Reggion Slater will have to investigate the case from an entirely different perspective in that the innocence of Reggion Slater has now become a substantial issue for the jury to consider. The man and his girlfriend told investigators only hours after the discovery of Pokorny s partially clothed body in a back room of the store that they had driven by the Marathon around 11 p.m. Aug. 10 on their way to a party and had seen a man carrying a heavy but unspecified object to a white car parked next to Pokorny s car in the lot at the Marathon. They described that man as dark in complexion, wearing a pink tank top and stone washed jeans, with scruffy facial hair and sideburns worn halfway down his cheek, and they likened his car to Pokorny s own, a Dodge Shadow. The man and his girlfriend then told investigators that, on their return from the party about an hour later, they stopped by the Marathon to visit Pokorny, could not find her in the store, became worried, and called 911.