The capital murder trial of Sharrod Moore, indicted in January for the 12-year-old murder of Jackson police officer Robert J. Washington, was supposed to happen this week. But Judge Swan Yerger has pushed the case back due to the inability of both sidesthe prosecution and the defenseto get the information they say they need to best try the case.
Washington, then 37, was killed the evening of Nov. 14, 1995, while on patrol in Precinct 2. Police found his patrol car parked in front of an abandoned house at 2631 Clinton Ave. Early the next morning, an officer found his body 3.7 miles away in the lot of the old Showtime Drive-In Theater off Highway 80 and Whiting Road. He was lying with his head in a pool of blood; he had been shot in the head several times. The officer was found with his pants around his ankles, his underwear pulled down to his knees and a used condom, along with four Lifestyles condom packages, scattered around the body.
Both Moore’s appointed attorney, Chuck Mullins, and District Attorney Robert S. Smith say they can’t get the all the documents they are entitled toMullins from Smith, and Smith from the Jackson Police Department…