Second Strahl trial set for April
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Associated Press - March 19, 2010 6:25 AM ET
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - James Strahl's retrial in a 12-year-old homicide case is scheduled to begin April 19 in Elk Point.
The 42-year-old Dakota City, Neb., man was convicted in 2007 of murder in the 1998 killing of William O'Hare at O'Hare's farm near Beresford.
The South Dakota Supreme Court later upheld a judge's decision to grant a new trial after it was determined that a prosecution witness in the Strahl trial had lied in an unrelated criminal case.
Prosecutors said Strahl and O'Hare met at an adult bookstore in Sioux City, Iowa and had sex at O'Hare's home. They said Strahl killed O'Hare with a hammer when he refused to drive Strahl home.
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