While a 31-year-old Hutchinson area man will face trial in June for one case, there is now a preliminary hearing set in the other.
That occurred Wednesday afternoon during the waiver-status docket in front of Judge Joe McCarville when the attorney for James Dean requested a preliminary hearing date. The judge then set it for May 8.
In this case, Dean faces charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, aggravated battery and criminal possession of a firearm, which allegedly was a 9 mm, handgun.
He’s accused of going to a Hutchinson home on East 3rd upset that his girlfriends gun may have been stolen. He went to the home of 50-year-old David Crossman, where he allegedly entered the home uninvited, forced the victim from the home and then began beating him with a baseball bat. Dean was also struck by another individual. This occurring back on February 28.
In the other case he’s scheduled to go to trial on June 17.
The crimes in this case allegedly occurred during a party in the early morning hours of August 4, 2013. The victim in that case, Jeffrey Kinney had gone to a neighbors home to return a dog and then asked if he could go four wheeling in the homeowners back field. Dean decided he wanted to go along. It was during the drive to the field that Dean allegedly stabbed Kinney three times, on his hand, in his stomach area and also on the left side of his chest. He says Dean then pushed him from his own truck, with the truck then running over him.
The scheduled dates in both cases are subject to change at ant time.