Keown murder trial delayed until June

Published: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:11 AM CDT

The murder trial for a former Jefferson City radio talk show host accused of poisoning his wife in 2004 has been delayed until June, as the defense waits for a key medical expert to undergo and recover from surgery.

According to the Daily News Tribune in Waltham, Mass., because a 16-member jury had been selected, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Geraldine Hines declared a mistrial Wednesday.

The trial of James Keown, charged with first-degree murder, has been rescheduled for June 9.

Hines granted the defense's motion for a mistrial after affidavits detailing the medical condition and importance of the witness's testimony to the case were filed by the witness's physicians and defense lawyers.

On Monday morning, attorneys Matthew Feinberg and Matthew Kamholtz said an important witness for their case was hospitalized.

With court reconvening, Feinberg had said the expected medical procedure “is going to be quite serious.”

Prosecutors allege Keown slowly poisoned his wife with ethylene glycol, a substance found in antifreeze, over a period of months after the couple moved to Waltham.

After being admitted to a hospital a second time with various flu-like symptoms, Julie Keown, 31, died on Sept. 8, 2004.

Following a year-long investigation, police in November 2005 arrested Keown while he was on-air at KLIK radio. Since his arraignment in Massachusetts, Keown has been held without bail in a detention facility in Cambridge, Mass.

The trial has been continued repeatedly since Keown's arraignment. Nearly a year into the legal proceedings, Keown changed lawyers, citing irreconcilable differences.


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