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| Murderer Defends Himself At Escape Trial |
| By azstarnet.com |
| Published: 08/18/2010 |
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A convicted murderer accused of trying to escape from a state prison on Tucson's southeast side told jurors Tuesday the prosecutor will have a hard time proving his guilt. "There's no evidence that shows I knowingly intended to escape," Joshua Aston, 23, said during opening statements in Pima County Superior Court. On May 13, 2009, a corrections officer doing a head count realized the lump underneath the blankets in Aston's cell was more blankets and Aston was missing, Deputy Pima County Attorney Laura Audsley told jurors. A Tucson police officer later spotted Aston and another inmate lying on the ground between the third and final fence of the prison complex's Cimarron Unit, 10000 S. Wilmot Road, Audsley said. Aston, who is charged with second-degree escape, is representing himself during the trial. Jurors have not been told why he was in prison. He was dressed in street clothes so as to not prejudice the jury. Read More. |
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