The man accused of killing Citizen sports reporter Dennis Sharkey has made more than 300 phone calls during his two months in jail, according to court documents.
In a discovery response filed by the state early this month, prosecutors noted Ruslan Huseynov has made, from the date of his arrest on June 10 through the end of August, 350 phone calls from jail. Huseynov speaks Azerbaijani on these calls, forcing the state to locate a translator to analyze the content of these calls, of which are each at least one minute long.
The discovery response was filed in answer to a motion to compel under Missouri Supreme Court rule 25.3, accusing the state of withholding information about the case from the defense.
In the filing, the state lists material discovered from security camera footage at businesses in Platte City, Kansas City and along the Interstate 29 corridor, including more than 20 different sources, all of which were provided to the defense in August. Later in August, the state provided several cell phone tower dumps as well as dash cam footage from police who investigated the scene. Several other pieces of information were passed along to the defense just before the end of the month, including Huseynov’s jail calls, police body cam recordings, 911 calls and Sharkey’s autopsy report as well as images from Sharkey’s work camera…