A trial date was set Wednesday afternoon in Christian Circuit Court in the reckless homicide case against Robert Jackson, the man accused in a fatal wreck in 2019 that killed two people.
Defense attorney Allison Mohon told Circuit Judge Andrew Self that while the Commonwealth has presented her with a plea agreement, she doubts her client will accept it, so it was probably best to set a trial date.
Judge Self agreed and set a trial date for June 13, despite Jackson telling the court that he doesn’t understand why he is being punished for what he calls an accident.
A pretrial conference was also set, with that date being March 23. As previously reported, Jackson was traveling south on Princeton Road about three and a half miles north of the Bypass in Christian County on December 23, 2019 when he crossed the center line and collided head-on with a vehicle driven by 32-year-old Misty Quarles of Cerulean. Quarles’ pickup then went over a bridge and onto a creek bed.
Quarles and a passenger, 11-year-old Alexia Trump, died from their injuries.
Two other passengers, 34-year-old Marcus Quarles and a juvenile, were seriously injured and flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Jackson was also badly injured in the collision.