Remember the Big Lake Pastor, Rev. Phillip Mielke? He shot two men breaking into his church, and was indicted by a grand jury. Prosecutors have been making a big deal that the burglars were unarmed and appeared to have been shot in the back. Now the Anchorage Daily News reports that there is a wrinkle in the prosecution's case.

Assistant district attorney Bob Collins requested the delay on Thursday to accommodate the state medical examiners and so his office could respond to new developments in the case. Late last week, Collins said, he received laboratory results that showed both Palmer's and Jones' DNA on a handgun found in the chapel basement. He is awaiting word whether Mielke's DNA is also on the weapon, Collins said.

This "development" would appear to blow a huge hole in the prosecution's claim that the goblins were unarmed. That probably won't stop them from zealously forging ahead though. It sounds to me like they found proof that the burglars had the gun, but the prosecutors are telling the forensic scientists to look again and see if they can prove it was Mielke's.

(Another hat tip to reader Tom Scott for the link.)