San Diego

A preliminary hearing for Howard Barton Jr., accused of killing a man after a traffic altercation in Pacific Beach, was postponed Thursday until May 8.

The delay was granted in Municipal Court after Barton’s lawyer, Clyde Munsell, said the prosecution had not turned over all the material he needed to defend his client.

Munsell described the material as transcripts of 911 emergency calls, the car that Marco Anthony Sanchez was sitting in when he was shot in the back and photographs of the body.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Lisa Chappell disputed Munsell’s contention, saying after the hearing that “there’s not one thing that he (Munsell) doesn’t have.”

“As far as I know, there’s nothing else forthcoming from me or from the police,” she said.

Chappell also said she and Munsell had previously agreed to ask for a postponement of Thursday’s hearing until April 18 because she was having trouble scheduling a witness. She described Munsell’s reasons for a longer delay as “nonsense.”

Barton, 46, is accused of murdering Sanchez, 24, on Feb. 22 in the 1000 block of Garnet Avenue after Sanchez got into a traffic dispute with Barton’s daughter, Andrea, 20.

Chappell said she and Munsell will meet today. “We’ll show him all our stuff and he’ll see,” she said.