JUDGE DISMISSES FELONY CHARGE AGAINST FORMER STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY DIRECTOR

LINCOLN – A judge ruled late Tuesday that prosecutors had waited too long before bringing former History Nebraska director Trevor Jones to trial and dismissed the felony theft charge he faced.

Lancaster County District Judge Susan Strong, in a 12-page ruling, granted a motion filed by Jones’ attorney to discharge the theft by deception charge, agreeing that prosecutors had violated the former director’s right to a speedy trial.

Mallory Hughes, Jones’ defense attorney, filed the motion in November, arguing that prosecutors with the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office had failed to request a trial date and that Jones should have stood trial by Sept. 12, six months, minus exclusions, after the case was bound over to district court.

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