There’s a new attorney in the case, the trial date was vacated and Robert Jackson was released on an ankle monitor during a hearing in Christian Circuit Court Wednesday.
Jackson is charged with reckless homicide, and other counts, in relation a fatal wreck in 2019 that killed two people—he has new representative in defense attorney Olivia Adams, who entered her appearance in court Wednesday. She informed the court she has a large amount of evidence to go through that would likely result in a trial delay, so she was ready to argue bond modification.
Judge Andrew Self was agreeable to pretrial release and set numerous conditions, including that Jackson must stay on an ankle monitor, cannot drive and more.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling informed the court that he will be bringing a superseding indictment in the case, bringing some traffic violation charges up to circuit court.
The trial date of June 13 was vacated. 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.