WTHR |Man charged with killing seven on trial for jail troubles
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Desmond Turner
James StewartMarion County - The man whom authorities consider the main triggerman in the slayings of seven members of an Indianapolis family is on trial for the troubles prosecutors say he caused in jail.
Desmond Turner is on trial in a Marion County court on a charge he committed battery by bodily waste by spitting on a jail guard.
Turner and James Stewart face murder charges for the June 2006 shooting deaths of four adults and three young children in a home on the city's east side. Their trial is scheduled for February 2009.
A prosecutor says a pretrial conference scheduled for Thursday in the murder case will likely be postponed because of Turner's battery trial.
Tuner and Stewart have been charged murder, criminal confinement, robbery, burglary and firearms violations in the June 2006 incident. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Turner, who they consider the main triggerman in the June 2006 killings on Indianapolis' east side.
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