Devonte Amerson spent five years in jail with no conviction
from the Hays County Jail on bond. It’s been six and a half years since he and his boyhood friend Cyrus Gray were arrested and charged with the 2015 murder of Texas State student Justin Gage. It’s been almost nine years since Gage’s death. Hays County authorities are still trying to figure out when, or if, to put Amerson on trial.
“We filed a motion to dismiss based on spoliation of evidence,” Sergi explained, using the legal term for the intentional or negligent destruction of trial evidence. “The prosecutors have admitted that there are seven pieces of evidence that they can’t find from witnesses that have previously testified. They testified one way in front of the grand jury, they testified another way at Cyrus Gray’s trial.
Prosecutors have asked for more time to produce the evidence. Sergi said that a hearing has been set for Sept. 23 to determine once and for all whether the evidence still exists. It has been described to him as containing interviews conducted in the first days of the investigation into Gage’s murder. “We want to see what was actually said; they don’t have it,” he said. “We know that one of their drives failed.
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