RITENOUR TO BE TRIED IN LEE COUNTY

Ritenour to be tried in Lee County

Citing media and social media coverage of the Ritenour proceedings, Judge Myron Gookin ruled yesterday that Alicia Ritenour’s defense team would be prejudiced by a Mahaska County jury pool and ordered that her trial be moved to Lee County.  Ritenour was re-charged after her convictions for first-degree murder and child endangerment for killing her two-year-old child Ava were overturned in December of 2018.   Ritenour’s new trial in Fort Madison is slated to begin on August 13, 2019.

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