Bodybuilders’ lawyers seek murder trial delay
Lawyers for professional bodybuilders Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan are again asking the Nevada Supreme Court to intervene and postpone their trial in the slaying of their live-in personal assistant.
A Clark County District judge said Tuesday the trial will go on as scheduled next Monday in Las Vegas, unless the state high court intervenes.
Titus and Ryan are accused of murder in the death of 28-year-old Melissa James, who according to an indictment was drugged, bound, shocked with a stun gun and strangled before her corpse was found in the trunk of Ryan's burned-out red Jaguar in December 2005.
In documents filed Friday with the Supreme Court, defense lawyers call the state case a "kitchen sink theory."
They say the charges aren't specific enough about who's accused of doing what to let them mount a defense.
