FAIRFAX, Va. -- A judge has denied a request by the lawyers representing Jesse Matthew for a continuance for next week's trial. In addition, the judge ruled not to bar the media from today's hearing.
The woman Matthew allegedly attacked in 2005 took the stand Thursday to identify him as her attacker.
Matthew is scheduled to go on trial Monday for attempted capital murder and sex crimes against a woman who was attacked outside her apartment in September 2005. Last month, a judge denied Matthew’s lawyers motion to delay the trial so they could “adequately prepare for trial and protect [Jesse Matthew’s] Constitutional rights.”
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The Fairfax Case
Court documents unsealed in March indicated Matthew abducted a woman on a path near her Fairfax apartment on September 24, 2005. It was alleged Matthew choked her and sexually assaulted her with his hand. DNA was taken from the victim and that sample linked Matthew to the offense, according to the documents.
That evidence prompted Matthew’s defense to request funds in the amount of $2,000 for a DNA expert.
DNA from the Fairfax case linked Matthew to murdered Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington the night she disappeared from UVa’s John Paul Jones Arena in 2009. That DNA was also collected in the Hannah Graham murder case.
Matthew is expected in Albemarle Court on June 25 where he is charged with capital murder in the Graham case.
