A couple weeks into the Dale Hausner trial, the lights went out in the courtroom, leaving the place pitch black. When they came back on about 30 seconds later, Judge Roland Steinle joked with the jury. “Kind of thought the county forgot to pay the electric bill,” he said from the bench.
I’ve been in the courtroom, representing the East Valley Tribune almost every day since opening arguments began back in October. Sadly, this marks my final post for the newspaper. The Tribune couldn’t keep its own lights on without losing a few people in the process. I’m one of them.
I plan independently to spend some time in the courtroom this month and blog about it on a web site to be named later. When I know where that will be, I will post the address of the new blog in the comments here. So stay tuned. Thanks for all your following and support over the past few months. If you would like to contact me in the interim, you can e-mail me at emailnickmartin@gmail.com.
Farewell.
Tribune file photo. Dale Hausner is shown being led into the Maricopa County jail just after his arrest on suspicion of being the Serial Shooter.
The cat is out of the bag. My new website, where I will be covering the Serial Shooter trial and other topics, launched this morning. It’s at http://www.heatcity.org. You can also link directly to the trial coverage only by going to http://www.serialshootertrial.com. Thank you all for the kind support.