“I’ve been doing this 30 years; I think this is probably the first time we’ve had a jury term in the month of July,” Limestone County District Attorney Brian Jones
Murder trials in Limestone County resume next week
Jury trials to resume Monday By Madison Scarpino | March 12, 2021 at 6:26 PM CST - Updated March 12 at 6:26 PM
LIMESTONE CO., Ala. (WAFF) - Another sign of the return to normalcy. jury trials will resume in Limestone County beginning Monday March 15.
The pandemic prevented them from being held last year.
”We’ve been going to court, zooms, in-person hearings, things like that but it’s very hard to run a judicial system without a jury trial,” Limestone County District Attorney Brian Jones said.
Jones says he’s ready for victims and their families to get their chance at justice as murder trials resume.
A judge has set the April 7 court date for Mason Sisk, who s charged as an adult with capital murder in the deaths of his father, mother and three siblings in Elkmont, Alabama, in 2019, WAAY-TV reported.
Sisk was 14 at the time of the slayings. The now-16-year-old is being held in the Limestone County Jail without bond.
A mugshot of teenage murder suspect Mason Sisk. (Limestone County Sheriff s Office)(Supplied)
Limestone County Circuit Judge Bob Baker, meanwhile, is considering a request to let him be transferred back to the Tennessee Valley Juvenile Detention Centre.
The teenager was placed in the county jail after he was charged in November as an adult in the case. His lawyers, Michael Sizemore and Lucas Beaty, said the law requires Sisk to be separated from adult inmates but they argue solitary confinement is not appropriate for him.