Judge postpones trial in Tammy Meyers slaying
A judge on Thursday postponed trial for two men accused in the fatal shooting of 44-year-old mother Tammy Meyers.
Erich Nowsch, alleged to be the gunman, and Derrick Andrews, who drove a getaway vehicle, had been scheduled to face a jury later this month. But after defense lawyers for both men asked to continue the trial, District Judge Michael Villani set a new trial date for March.
Nowsch, 20, testified during an August hearing that he was high on marijuana when he confessed to the killing.
Nowsch's lawyers wanted his hourslong interview with Las Vegas police to be thrown out of court, arguing he was too intoxicated to understand what was happening.
But Villani ruled that a jury should be allowed to hear Nowsch's statement to detectives.
Prosecutor David Stanton said Nowsch was coherent enough to deny his role in the killing for at least an hour into his interview with the detective.
Nowsch, 20, and Andrews, 27, have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and a gun charge in Meyers' Feb. 14 death. Both men are being held at the Clark County Detention Center without bail.
Prosecutors said Andrews was behind the wheel of a silver 2000 Audi A6 from which Nowsch fired 24 shots, striking Meyers in the head Feb. 12 while she stood in the cul-de-sac in front of her northwest valley home. She died two days later.
The shootout was initially attributed to "road rage," but a prosecutor said the deadly chain of events started when Meyers saw Andrews' car and mistakenly thought it was one that had bumped hers earlier.
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