The lawyer for a man accused of fatally stabbing Connecticut football player Jasper Howard wants to take the case to trial this fall.
Deron Freeman tells The Associated Press that he plans to file a speedy trial motion for John Lomax III in Rockville Superior Court and is hoping for a trial in late September or October.
Lomax, of Bloomfield, is accused of stabbing cornerback Jasper Howard of Miami to death last Oct. 18 during an on-campus fight between a group of football players and a group that included Lomax.
Freeman says Lomax insists he was not the man who stabbed Howard, and has refused to enter into any plea negotiations on the murder charge.
A fall trial would come in the middle of UConn's football season, and several players could be called as witnesses.
