In missing tutor trial, lawyer doesn’t want jury to hear about death of defendant’s previous wife – Palo Alto Daily Post

In missing tutor trial, lawyer doesn’t want jury to hear about death of defendant’s previous wife – Palo Alto Daily Post

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A man who is accused of bringing his wife from Mountain View to Taiwan so he could kill her has filed a motion in court to prevent her family from suggesting that he also killed his previous wife. “There is no place in trial for innuendo, conjecture or rumor,” attorney Chuck Smith said in a motion filed on Thursday for his client, Harald Herchen. Herchen, 66, of Los Altos, is headed for a civil trial …