{"id":19077,"date":"2017-04-04T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/murder-suspect-to-be-retried-double-jeopardy-claim-denied\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:35:00","slug":"murder-suspect-to-be-retried-double-jeopardy-claim-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/murder-suspect-to-be-retried-double-jeopardy-claim-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder suspect to be retried, double jeopardy claim denied"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Juneau resident accused of murder for allegedly shooting a man in the Mendenhall Valley will likely be retried after a judge rejected the defense’s double jeopardy claim.<\/p>\n

Superior Court Judge Philip Pallenberg denied a motion for dismissal in the trial of Christopher Strawn, who is facing charges of first-degree and second-degree murder, manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, third-degree assault and weapons misconduct.<\/p>\n

Strawn’s first trial came to an abrupt end <\/a>on Feb. 14 after his ex-girlfriend blurted out a revelation of domestic violence while testifying. The retrial currently is set to start Oct. 2 and Strawn is next scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Eve Soutiere had argued<\/a> for a permanent end to any criminal prosecution of Strawn in the October 2015 shooting death of Brandon Cook, asking for the case to be dismissed due to double jeopardy.<\/p>\n

Double jeopardy usually applies to a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal or conviction. Soutiere argued double jeopardy can also apply to a mistrial if it was caused by prosecutorial overreach; she claimed Assistant Defense Attorney Amy Paige did not adequately prepare her witness or caution her strongly enough against making that statement.<\/p>\n

Indictments include sex abuse of minor, assault<\/strong><\/p>\n

• Donald S. Hotch, 70, was indicted by a Juneau grand jury on one count of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor, and one count of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor, on March 22. The alleged incidents occured in September 2013 and involved a girl younger than 13, according to the indictment. He was arraigned on March 24 and a trial date was set for June 26.<\/p>\n

• Frank S. Koenig, 38, was indicted for third-degree assault on March 29 for allegedly placing another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury with a knife. The incident occurred near Hoonah on March 27, according to the indictment. Koenig was appointed a public defender and was arraigned Thursday. A trial date was set for June 26.<\/p>\n

• Donald Ray Hosier Jr., 34, was indicted on one count of second-degree assault, one count of third-degree misconduct involving weapons and two counts of third-degree assault.<\/p>\n

On March 24, Juneau Police Department officers arrested Hosier after a standoff<\/a> that had been precipitated by a domestic dispute.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to the incident in the 3000 block of Nowell Avenue, after a woman reported being assaulted and locked out of her home by Hosier.<\/p>\n

Hosier was reported to be possibly armed with a firearm and in the company of two children, and was refusing to let officers enter, or to come out of the home. After about two and a half hours, police were able to convince Hosier to come out and he was taken into custody without further incident.<\/p>\n

Juneau Police arrested Hosier and he was taken to Lemon Creek Correctional Center, where he was held without bail.<\/p>\n

Hosier was arraigned in Superior Court on March 30 and a trial date has been scheduled for June 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Juneau resident accused of murder for allegedly shooting a man in the Mendenhall Valley will likely be retried after a judge rejected the defense’s double jeopardy claim. Superior Court Judge Philip Pallenberg denied a motion for dismissal in the trial of Christopher Strawn, who is facing charges of first-degree and second-degree murder, manslaughter, criminally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":19078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}