BARROW COUNTY, Ga. — A Barrow County Superior Court judge ruled to move the trial date for the father of the suspected Apalachee High School gunman.
The trial for Colin Gray had been scheduled to begin in September. However, on Monday, his attorneys filed a motion for continuation because of trials for other cases they have in Fulton County.
Judge Nicolas Primm reached out to the Fulton County judges in an effort “to see if some agreement could be reached.”
He said he didn’t hear back and has no choice but to move the trial.
“Because there are so many moving parts, I’ll confer with the state, with the defense and with Hall County to try to find the time to get this reset, the three weeks that we anticipate it’s going to take,” Primm said.
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Gray’s defense attorneys are scheduled to defend someone else in Fulton County because delays during COVID-19 still have courts catching up with trials that should have happened years ago.
Even if his attorneys did not have a scheduling conflict, they told the judge that they were not going to be ready for trial in seven weeks.
“As the court can imagine, the discovery in this case, the sheer breadth of discovery is voluminous,” attorneys said. “It has been difficult to get through all of that for all of us.”
The attorneys are currently set to meet on Aug. 1 to work out a trial date that works for everyone.
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