Just months before being accused of fatally stabbing a young man on the Boise River Greenbelt, Ross Wardlaw stood trial on allegations that he broke another man’s nose and threatened a woman with a knife last year.
A 12-person jury acquitted him of all charges — unanimously. He was released in May from the Ada County Jail, where he was being held on a $100,000 bond.
He’d been out of custody for two months when he allegedly killed 25-year-old Jordan Harbst. Wardlaw was charged with first-degree murder…