Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling says another superseding indictment will be handed down in Christian County Circuit Court against a Crittenden County man charged in a 2019 wreck that claimed the lives of a Cerulean mother and her 11-year old child.
Robert Jackson of Marion had previously been charged with two counts of reckless homicide and two counts of wanton endangerment in connection to a two-vehicle wreck that occurred in 2019 two days before Christmas on KY 91/Princeton Road. A superseding indictment was handed down in May that removed one of the reckless homicide charges and added a first-degree wanton endangerment offense for a total of three counts.
During a pretrial conference before Judge Andrew Self Wednesday afternoon, Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling said a new superseding indictment would include two counts of reckless homicide.
click to download audioAlso during the hearing, Olivia Adams, who represents Jackson, said she has reviewed all of the discovery that Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephanie Bolen has sent her, but she needs more time to review several boxes of discovery at Bolen’s office.
Adams also said she had two issues that she wanted to address, one of which is preserving evidence.
click to download audioShe added the second issue is that she wants to inspect the vehicles involved in the wreck. Bolen said she would have to see if the vehicles are still available.
click to download audioJudge Self set another pretrial conference for 1:00 the afternoon of August 17.
The Christian County Sheriff’s Office reported Jackson crossed the center line about a mile north of Sinking Fork Baptist Church and hit a truck driven by 32-year old Misty Quarles of Cerulean. Quarles’s daughter, 11-year old Alexia Trump, a sixth-grader at Sinking Fork Elementary School, died from her injuries at a Nashville hospital within a day of the crash. Quarles succumbed to her injuries the following May after a lengthy hospital stay. Two other people in Quarles’ vehicle were also injured.
