MIDDLETOWN, Conn.—The lawyer for a 29-year-old man accused of gunning down a Wesleyan University student says he may ask for a probable cause hearing that would require prosecutors to lay out their case.
Defense attorney Dick Brown says he’ll discuss the merits of the hearing with his client, Stephen Morgan. Morgan is being held on $15 million bond in the May 6 shooting of 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich (yoh-HAHN’-uh juss-tinn-YIN’-ich) of Timnath, Colo., in a bookstore near the Middletown campus.
Connecticut law gives anyone accused of a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment to ask for a probable cause hearing within 60 days. The hearing would allow both sides to introduce evidence and call witnesses.
A court hearing scheduled for Tuesday was delayed to June 9.
