A Texas man who was scheduled for trial on murder charges has instead been granted release on bond. That's after Dallas police revealed there was a temporary concern that material in his case might be among troves of data lost from its computer system.
A Dallas County judge granted Jonathan Pitts bond Thursday after prosecutors asked the judge to delay his trial as they worked with police to determine whether case material was part of the information lost while the Dallas Police Department was moving data from a computer network drive. It was not immediately clear when Pitts would be freed from jail.
The district attorney’s office had reached out to the homicide detective on the case Thursday to confirm all evidence was available for trial, the police department said in a statement. The detective said he would need more time to confirm.By the time the detective confirmed all the evidence was available, at 9:50 a.m. Thursday according to police, the district attorney’s office had to file a motion of continuance with the court.
White granted Pitts release without paying bail because state law requires a person be freed if prosecutors aren’t ready at the time of the trial, his defense attorney, George Ashford III, toldMayor Eric Johnson said the release underscored the seriousness of the data loss.
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