HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The lawyer for a man accused of fatally stabbing University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard wants to take the case to trial this fall.
Deron Freeman tells The Associated Press he plans to file a speedy-trial motion for Bloomfield resident John Lomax III in Rockville Superior Court and is hoping for a trial in late September or October.
Lomax is accused of killing Howard last Oct. 18 during an on-campus fight between football players and a group that included Lomax. Howard was a 20-year-old cornerback from Miami.
Freeman says Lomax insists he’s not the man who stabbed Howard and has refused to enter into plea negotiations on the murder charge.
A fall trial would come in the middle of UConn’s football season. Several players could be called as witnesses.
