The judge overseeing the trial of a former Uvalde school district police officer rejected a defense motion to declare a mistrial on Wednesday afternoon.
Judge Sid Harle ruled the prosecution had not intentionally withheld material mentioned by a witness during the first day of trial.
Former Robb Elementary School teacher Stephanie Hale will continue to be cross-examined on Thursday, after which Harle will decide whether her entire testimony should be struck from the record and the jury instructed to disregard it.
Attorney Jason Goss, who is defending Adrian Gonzales — the former school police officer who has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of child endangerment or abandonment related to the Uvalde school massacre — insisted the defense case had been harmed by Hale’s testimony indicating where she remembered seeing the gunman.
The defense hopes to present a detailed timeline of events and argued this new information could have affected it.
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