Heather Fawcett, who already testified at one trial after being attacked by
Pedro Sanchez, declined to take the stand at a retrial after Sanchez’s conviction was overturned,
‘It’s the second time I’m going through this trial,’ Fawcett told the outlet. ‘And now you’re gonna tell me I have to expose my friends and my family and people I care about and myself to this virus?”
Sanchez was convicted of second-degree assault in the attack on Fawcett five years ago by a 10-2 jury verdict with the victim taking the stand against him.
But the conviction was overturned when the US Supreme Court in April