The dismissal of a murder case against a man charged three times in the 1992 strangling of Laurie Houts in Mountain View will not go into effect until an appellate court weighs in, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The dismissal of a murder case against a man charged three times in the 1992 strangling of Laurie Houts in Mountain View will not go into effect until an appellate court weighs in, a judge ruled Tuesday.
A judge threw out a third attempt to prosecute John Kevin Woodward for the strangling of Laurie Houts three decades ago, ruling that another murder trial would violate Woodward's constitutional protections against double jeopardy.