Stephan Sterns lawyer taking 12 new depositions: Assistant State Attorney gives new witness lists in jail

“Had this scared face to him. The eyes just…more like a sadness to his eye.”

“She might’ve been in that trunk as I passed.”

Remember when Stephan Sterns made his first-ever court appearance on Monday, October 14, 2024?

https://www.aroundosceola.com/news/stephan-sterns-makes-first-ever-court-appearance-monday

According to the Osceola Gazette, “The State Attorney has filed to seek the death penalty against Sterns, who remains in the Osceola County Jail. It appears that these are wheels of justice moving slowly. Assistant State Attorney Danielle Pinnell noted no depositions have been done, or been scheduled, among the many witnesses in what are now separate cases. She said the murder case has many more witnesses.”

Public defender Beth Bourdon, surrounded by a defense team of three other attorneys, told Judge Keith Carsten that she is currently on another death penalty case and has two others on her docket. She asked that the case be scheduled for 2027, but Carsten said that would, “Test the bounds of…