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Show Trial Postponed FARMINGTON - Another three weeks delay in the trial of a Tooele boy accused of shooting a Utah Highway Patrol Pa-trol trooper has been granted in First District Juvenile Court here. JUVENILE Court Judge L. Kent Bachman granted the continuance for Pablo LeRoy Borrego Jr. until May 14. The youth, who turned 14 Monday, is scheduled to stand trial in the shooting incident of Trooper Ralph Evans, of Sunset, near Farmington last October 7. JUDGE Bachman allowed the trial to be delayed again because defense attorney Robert Van Sciver was involved in-volved with another trial in Federal Court. Prosecuting Attorney Mel-vin Mel-vin Wilson objected to the trial postponement because of. the short notice. However, the continuance was granted. YOUNG Borrego is charged with attempted criminal homicide and two counts of aggravated robbery. The latter lat-ter arose from the theft of two cars by threat during a highspeed high-speed chase following the alleged shooting. Trooper Evans is recuperating at home from bullet wounds to the neck and hip. He is partially paralyzed and he said earlier that he would not be able to return to law enforcement as a profession. profes-sion. IT WAS the third postponement post-ponement of the boy's trial. The first was at the request of the defense attorney to allow for completion of psychiatric treatment of the Borrego youth. The county attorney's office asked for the second continuance because a key witness was not available on that date, grb |