New trial for Nevada death row inmate will await appeal
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A 79-year-old Nevada prison inmate who was sentenced in 2010 to die may get a chance to again argue he's not guilty, after a judge in Las Vegas overturned his conviction and granted him a new trial.
However, the judge on Thursday postponed setting a new trial date for John Matthias Watson III, after prosecutors appealed the ruling to the Nevada Supreme Court.
Watson's attorney, Jamie Resch, says Watson's trial lawyers made colossal errors.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Everilda Watson's body was never found and John Watson, a retired math teacher from Ontario, California, always maintained that he didn't kill her.
But in a bid to spare him from death row — and without his consent — one of his lawyers told jurors that Watson might have been guilty of a lesser murder charge.