The third-degree rape trial of former Grayson County High School teacher and head baseball coach Gavin Logsdon has been declared a mistrial.
The mistrial was declared after a jury panel of twelve impartial jurors plus one alternate was unable to be selected out of approximately sixty citizens in the jury pool. The fact that the Logsdon family is well-known in Grayson County, plus the publicity surrounding Logsdon’s arrest and indictment surely contributed to the difficulty of sitting an impartial panel.
Grayson County Circuit Court Judge Robert Miller will now ask Logsdon and his attorney whether they want to set a new trial date, which could be as far away as one year, or file for a change of venue, moving the trial out of Grayson County.
Logsdon was arrested by Kentucky State Police on November 22, 2016. During an interrogation by detectives later that day, the then 30 year-old Logsdon admitted to having a sexual relationship with a 17 year-old female student that had began in June.
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