Marshman murder trial postponed until August

A jury trial for a 29-year-old charged with murder was postponed Monday until Aug. 4 in Charlottesville Circuit Court.
Jason Scott Marshman was charged in connection with the June 21 slaying of 28-year-old Charlottesville resident William Miller Herndon. Herndon was found shot in the Westhaven public housing complex. He later died from his wounds at the University of Virginia hospital. According to a search warrant affidavit, Herndon and Marshman had been quarrelling over a supposed relationship between Herndon and the mother of Marshman’s child.
Marshman’s attorney, Michael Morchower, asked for the case to be continued to give him more time to prepare, time to find a ballistics expert and because a material witness in the case has been hospitalized for surgery.
Marshman also was sentenced Monday to two years in prison on an unrelated firearm possession charge from 2006. Marshman originally was scheduled to be sentenced on the charge April 21, but he chose to forgo a pre-sentencing investigation.
He faces a July 22 jury trial on a felony failure to appear charge for allegedly not attending a June 28 hearing on the firearm charge.