LIVE COVERAGE: Travis Standlee murder trial

The prosecutor continues its case at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the second murder trial of Travis Standlee, a homeless man already serving 50 years for killing another homeless man, Raymond Ursino last year.

Standlee, 45, is charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation death of Sharon Mead, 41, whose body was found Sept. 11, 2015, near Coe College. This trial was moved to Scott County District Court based on pretrial publicity to ensure Standlee receives a fair and impartial jury.

A prosecutor on Tuesday said during his opening statement that Standlee met Mead and her boyfriend that night, started drinking with them and then got Mead alone and started kissing her. When Mead rejected him, Standlee started choking her as he was trying to gain control of her.

The defense said that was just the prosecution's 'theory," not fact. There are weaknesses in the state's case and a lack of evidence to convict Standlee of first-degree murder, Doug Davis told jurors during his opening.

Standlee plans to claim diminished capacity and/or intoxication as a defense.

A criminal complaint shows Mead and Raymond Ursino, 56, both were strangled and had 'strikingly similar injuries.' Standlee was convicted in June of second-degree murder in Ursino's death on Sept. 5, 2015.

The trial is expected to wrap up by Friday.