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| Wash. inmate standing trial for prison guard killing; could get death penalty if convicted |
| By washingtonpost.com |
| Published: 05/02/2013 |
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EVERETT, Wash. — A convicted rapist accused of strangling a corrections officer to death with an amplifier cord in the prison chapel is standing trial on charges that could carry the death penalty if he’s convicted. The aggravated murder trial began Wednesday in Everett for Byron Scherf. The convicted rapist already was serving a life sentence when he killed Jayme Biendl in January 2011 at the Washington state Reformatory in Monroe, Snohomish County prosecutors said. Lawyers spent a month selecting a jury for the trial that is likely to take weeks, The Daily Herald reported (http://bit.ly/15ZQyBs ). At the time of the killing, Scherf was serving a life sentence under Washington’s persistent offender law. His third strike in 1997 was a rape and assault conviction in Spokane for an attack on a real estate agent. His other strikes also were violent crimes against women, including a 16-year-old. Read More. |
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