Rios murder retrial begins Tuesday, victim was from Danville at On the Beat in the Bluegrass

Rios murder retrial begins Tuesday, victim was from Danville

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on December 2, 2008

. Tags: Danville, Jesse Valencia, Steven Rios, University of Missouri.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Opening statements are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning in the retrial of Steven Rios, a former Columbia police officer sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for the 2004 murder of 23-year-old University of Missouri student Jesse Valencia, who was from Danville.

On Monday morning, attorneys selected a Clay County jury of 12 primary and 3 alternate jurors for the trial, which will be held in Boone County Circuit Court. Later in the day, Judge Frank Conley denied a defense motion to suppress evidence from a Columbia police interview of Rios, now 31, conducted just days after Valencia’s death.

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1 azala
May 28, 2009 at 4:23 pm

What was the alleged motive for killing the student?

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