Brendan Barnes walks into Judge Don Poole’s courtroom Monday. A hearing was held consider a motion to allow separate trials for Antonio Henry and Brendan Barnes. Both men are charged in the 2010 beating and stabbing death of a local pastor, David Strong.
Antonio Henry walks into Judge Don Poole’s courtroom Monday. A hearing was held to consider a motion to separate the trials of Antonio Henry and Brendan Barnes. Both men are charged in the beating and stabbing death of a local pastor, David Strong, last year.Attorneys for two defendants charged in the beating and stabbing death of a local pastor continued to argue Monday for their clients to receive separate trials.
In a hearing, Executive Assistant District Public Defender Karla Gothard, representing Brendan Barnes, 17, and Dan Ripper, representing Antonio Henry, 26, said their clients would blame each other if tried together.
“The state could almost sit back and let the two defendants convict each other,” Ripper said.
But prosecutors argued that the pair should be tried together.
“I think they should be tried together. They did the crime together,” said Hamilton County District Attorney Bill Cox.