PENSACOLA — Ricky Chavis obtained a delay for his third trial related to the murder of a friend who was killed by the victim’s two adolescent sons because transcripts from the last case were not ready Monday.
Circuit Judge Joseph Tarbuck postponed the trial for a week. It was supposed to begin Monday with jury selection.
Chavis, 41, could face a maximum prison sentence of 35 years if convicted of evidence tampering and accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.
He is accused of picking up Alex and Derek King, then 12 and 13, after Derek killed their father by hitting him in the head with an aluminum baseball bat Nov. 26, 2001. Alex had urged his brother to kill Terry King, 40, while he slept in a recliner at his home in nearby Cantonment.
