District Attorney adds new attorneys to team for Holly Bobo cases
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DECATUR COUNTY, Tenn. — District Attorney Matt Stowe said he will consider the death penalty against Zach Adams and Jason Autry, the two men charged with Holly Bobo’s 2011 death and disappearance. Stowe said he is now building a team equipped to do so. “We are putting together a section of attorneys whose particular focus and skill is the death penalty,” he said. Stowe is bringing in two new team members. Jennifer Nichols is currently the Chief Assistant District Attorney in Memphis and will assist on the Bobo case. “She’s been a part of the trial team, a key part, if not the principle part, of the team that’s put several people that are on death row currently in the state of Tennessee,” he said. Carthel Smith, a Lexington attorney, was sworn in Monday as Stowe’s new assistant district attorney. Kenneth Rochelle hopes a skilled team will promise closure. “They need to go ahead and get justice for the family and get it over with where they can resolve and go on with their lives,” Rochelle said. Stowe said choosing the new team has been his toughest job yet but he is confident as they move toward a possible trial. “We’re going to have the very best people that I know how to put together fighting it, and no, I’m not going to be nervous, I’m not going to be afraid or anything else. I have one single purpose that I think God put me here for which is to get justice for Holly,” Stowe said. Stowe said he plans to add at least one more person to his trial team. Zach and Dylan Adams and Jason Autry are scheduled to return to court in December.
