Frazier Granted New Trial
Scott C. Frazier, 44, had been found guilty in an indecent assault trial in Clinton County Court in December of last year. At the time he was placed on probation for two years.
President Judge Craig Miller had imposed the sentence on Frazier after he had been found guilty of two misdemeanor counts, indecent assault and harassment, both related to an alleged overnight incident in March of 2013. That trial was the second for Frazier after the first ended when a jury could not agree on a verdict.
Frazier will now get a third trial, likely sometime this fall, after new evidence was presented to the court. Judge Miller issued the order for the new trial after arguments were heard Friday.
At the second trial the victim, a senior at Central Mountain High School at the time of the incident, testified he did not intend to bring any civil action against Frazier or the school district. But in March of this year the defendant did file a civil action concerning “an assault and battery that occurred on or about March 28, 2013.”
Ronald Travis, representing Frazier, argued to the court that the alleged victim and his attorney “were involved in a deceitful charade that prevented the jury from hearing the truth about the victim’s plan to seek a monetary award” in civil court.
Travis said the “state of the record” shows the same attorney (who was not named) had forwarded correspondence (dated March of 2014) to the school district solicitor indicating that attorney was representing the victim in an action against KCSD … and then forwarded correspondence to the District Attorney that said previous correspondence was in error, has now filed the civil action against KCSD and Defendant Frazier.”
Frazier has been suspended without pay from the district for the last two years. Jury selection for the third trial has been set for September 11.
