The judge presiding over the case of the person charged in the 2007 killing of Anita Knutson said the courts will go the traditional routes of determining whether a fair and impartial jury trial can take place in Ward County.
Earlier this month, the state filed a motion, calling for the court to put a gag order on the defense, after a post titled “Knutson/Rice Survey” made the rounds on social media.
According to a motion filed this week in district court, prosecutors in Ward County said they became aware of a survey on Facebook titled ”Knutson/Rice Survey.”
In the request, the parties say they are “still working through significant, new discovery, and believe more time is needed to adequately review and address that.”
State prosecutors are working to obtain a forensics report in the 2007 killing of Anita Knutson, according to records filed this week. The documents are being sought by the defense for the woman charged in Knutson’s killing.
The attorneys representing the woman charged in the 2007 killing of Minot college student Anita Knutson are calling on the courts to compel the state to send them more forensics pertaining to a possible alternate suspect.
North Dakota courts handled a number of high-profile cases in 2022 including Chad Isaak's appeal, the state's abortion law and a high number of homicides in larger cities.
The suspect charged in the 2007 killing of Minot college student Anita Knutson likely won’t be back in court until next year.The courts have rescheduled the pretrial conference for 35-year-old Nichole Rice for March 1, 2023, at 11 a.m. in district court in Minot.
The case of the 2007 killing of Minot college student Anita Knutson has drawn national attention of late, including a special two-part investigation on the show “Cold Justice.”
The pretrial conference for 35-year-old Nichole Rice has been pushed back month to Dec. 21, 2022, at 11 a.m. in Minot, according to online court records.
A Minot Police detective testified for more than an hour Thursday morning at Nichole Rice's preliminary hearing, from DNA testing of the murder weapon, to Nichole's actions in the days around Knutson's death, to other possible suspects who were considered in the investigation. Rice will be back in court in November.
The woman charged with murder in the 2007 killing of Anita Knutson in Minot has had her next court appearance pushed back due to the amount of evidence in the case.
The woman charged with murder in the 15-year-old case of the killing of Anita Knutson made her first initial appearance by video at the Ward County courthouse Thursday afternoon.
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