ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Samuel Lawson, a man whose murder conviction was overturned by the Oregon Supreme Court last fall, returned to a Douglas County courtroom this week for the first time since he was awarded a new trial.

The clean-shaven Lawson wore a jail-issued hunter orange shirt and pants for the brief hearing on a defense motion to bar Judge William Garrison from presiding over the new trial. Garrison denied a defense motion seven years ago to declare a mistrial.