Winfield ? A judge ruled Friday in favor of prosecutors in a dispute over DNA evidence gathered in the case against an Arkansas City man accused of killing a member of a college dance team.

Cowley County District Judge Jim Pringle said the prosecution may use up all the DNA evidence gathered in its case against Justin Thurber, pictured above right, leaving nothing for the defense to do its own testing. Thurber is charged with capital murder, aggravated kidnapping, rape and aggravated criminal sodomy in the abduction and killing of Jodi Sanderholm, 19, of Arkansas City.

But the judge ruled the defense could have access to photographs of evidence before DNA testing was conducted and computer printouts of each material step in the testing process.

Thurber appeared at the hearing and sat silently at the defense table. Family members of Sanderhom and Thurber were in the courtroom.

Sanderholm disappeared Jan. 5 after she left practice with the Cowley College Tigerette Danceline. Her car was found in a lake Jan. 9, and her body was discovered about eight miles away. Authorities said she had been strangled.

The preliminary hearing was set for 9 a.m. on May 30 at the courthouse in Winfield.