Prosecutors in Ohio have postponed an unrelated prostitution case against a suspect in the shooting deaths of three men who were lured to a rural area by bogus job ads on Craigslist.
The postponement was announced Thursday as Richard Beasley, 52, appeared in court in Akron on the prostitution charges.
Beasley, a self-styled chaplain from Akron, has pleaded not guilty to prostitution and, separately, to aggravated murder in the Craigslist slayings of three men and the wounding of a fourth.
Beasley covered his face in court and said that he was concerned about biased jurors.
Judge Tammy O'Brien said that she was confident an impartial jury would be selected.
Police said that a halfway house run by Beasley was a front for prostitution.
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