TROY – A judge has delayed the trial of a man accused of killing two women and two children in order to give him time to review hours of video footage prosecutors plan to use as evidence.

James White said he had not been given access to a laptop computer at the Rensselaer County Jail to watch the videos, which come from Capital District Transportation Authority buses and cameras from around the Lansingburgh home where White and another man allegedly carried out the killings on Dec. 21, 2017.

Rensselaer County Judge Debra Young moved the trial date from April 29 to Sept. 9 after she received a letter regarding the situation from White's attorney, Steven Sharp.

White is charged with killing Brandi Mells, 22; Shanta Myers, 36; and Myers' two children, Jeremiah Myers, 11, and Shanise Myers, 5, in their basement apartment at 158 Second Ave.

White's onetime co-defendant, Justin Mann, pleaded guilty April 5 to four counts of second-degree murder. Mann, who is expected to testify for the district attorney's office, said White slashed the throats of the four victims after they were tied up. Mann made the allegations as part of a plea deal for which he will serve four concurrent prison terms of 25 years to life. He had faced the prospect of life in prison.

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White faces trial on nine counts of first-degree murder, four counts of second-degree murder, one count of burglary, one count of robbery and two counts of criminal possession of stolen property. The top count carries a maximum sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Matthew Hauf told the judge that the prosecution had turned over all the evidence including “copious amounts of video” last year. Hauf said he would not oppose the trial delay. The prosecution wants to ensure that White is provided no grounds for appeal.

Young said she was unaware of the circumstances until a recent conference with the lawyers.

One video gathered by police allegedly shows White and Mann arriving at the murder scene and then leaving with items that investigators later determined to be a flat-screen television, two Xbox gaming consoles and controllers. Additional video allegedly shows the two men taking CDTA buses from Troy to Albany and later to Schenectady, where they lived.