Separate trial dates set for Good Friday suspects
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer on Apr 23, 2013, at 12:05 PM Updated on 4/23/13 at 12:07 PM
Jake England (left) and Alvin Watts
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A Tulsa judge on Tuesday scheduled separate trial dates in 2014 for two men charged with murdering three people on Good Friday of 2012.
Both prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that Jacob Carl England and Alvin Lee Watts should be tried separately in a case where the prosecution is seeking the death penalty for both defendants.
The trial for Watts, 34, is set for Feb. 3.
The trial for England, 20, is set for March 3.
First Assistant District Attorney Doug Drummond indicated that the prosecution could be ready for a fall trial.
District Judge James Caputo scheduled the 2014 dates.
England and Watts are accused of shooting five black people at random at four north Tulsa locations on April 6, 2012, which was Good Friday.
England and Watts are each charged with three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of shooting with intent to kill and five counts of malicious intimidation or harassment on account of race, color ancestry or national origin.
The defendants, who are listed as white in court documents, face murder counts linked to the fatal shootings of Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54, and William Allen, 31.
The two other victims, David Hall and Deon Tucker, survived their wounds.
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