New Date Set For Carrier Trial

A judge on Tuesday denied Joshua Carrier bond and scheduled his second child sex abuse trial to start on Sept. 18th.

Carrier, a former Colorado Springs police officer, is being retried on 150 counts alleging he molested boys at Horace Mann Middle School during his time there as a volunteer and wrestling coach. In April, a jury convicted Carrier on 21 counts of child pornography, acquitted him on some charges and were unable to reach a verdict on a bulk of the 207 counts in the case.

Prosecutors argued that they wanted the second trial to start in the summer, before the alleged victims went back to school, but Carrier’s attorneys had conflicts that prevented it.

Carrier was free on $500,000 bond before and during his first trial, but the judge in the case refused to grant him bail this time around.

The judge also decided that Carrier will be sentenced on the 21 child porn convictions after the second trial is over.