A judge has postponed the trial for two brothers accused in the December 2010 death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
In a closed hearing last week, U.S. District Judge David C. Bury decided that the current, June 12 trial date will not work, newly released minutes of the hearing say. He did not set a new trial date.
“The Court and counsel confer as the to the current trial date,” the minutes say. “All parties agree the current date is not feasible. Based on defendant’s waiver of speedy trial and at the request of both parties the trial date of June 12, 2012 will be reset.”
The case against Manuel Osorio-Arellanes and his brother Rito has been sealed by Bury, but a coalition of news organizations is in litigation to open up the court case, and the minutes were released as part of that process. Manuel is charged with second-degree murder in the case, but it is unclear what charge Rito faces.
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Bury set a new status hearing in the case on Aug. 20.
Terry, an agent in the patrol’s elite Bortac unit, was killed in a confrontation with a group of suspected border bandits west of Rio Rico. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes was wounded in the gunfire.
