YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A mistrial has been declared in the rape trial of a man accused of kidnapping a woman from a Yakima street and raping her in a hop field near Moxee.
The Yakima County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that a detective’s testimony unfairly prejudiced the jury because he referred to “one of the victims.”
Before his trial began, Judge James Garvin ruled that witnesses were not to refer to the woman as a victim.
And, the Yakima Herald-Republic reports, the 21-year-old defendant, Edwin Ordonez-Nava, is charged in only one of three similar abductions and an attempted luring that took place last May in the Yakima area.
