Kaitlin Armstrong’s homicide trial in connection to the demise of bike owner Moriah Wilson has been delayed 4 months from its anticipated June 26 date to October 30, 2023, with no rationalization supplied for the postponement, in keeping with a report in CBS Austin (opens in new tab).
Armstrong final appeared in courtroom on April 20, 2023, and requested a speedy trial.
Nevertheless, at that courtroom look, her protection legal professional Rick Cofer informed District Choose Brandy Mueller that he and his staff might have to request that the trial be delayed in an effort to safe witnesses and different proof for her protection, in keeping with a report within the Austin American-Statesman (opens in new tab).
Cofer was anticipated to make a proper request for a delay on Could 1, 2023.
It’s the second delay of Armstrong’s homicide trial, which was first anticipated to start final October 2022. Nevertheless, at the moment, it was postponed whereas the presiding decide, Choose Brenda Kennedy, decided to dismiss two motions filed by Armstrong’s protection staff to suppress proof.
“There was no proof of any intentional disregard for the reality,” Choose Brenda Kennedy said in a courtroom listening to on November 9, 2022, concerning Armstrong’s protection staff’s submitting of a Frank’s Listening to and Movement to Suppress Proof to problem the reality of the knowledge which detectives used to help the search and arrest warrants throughout their preliminary investigation.
Armstrong has been formally charged with first-degree homicide in connection to Wilson’s demise in an East Austin, Texas, dwelling on Could 11, 2022.
After a 43-day fugitive hunt, authorities positioned and apprehended Armstrong on June 29, 2022, at a hostel on Santa Teresa Seashore in Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
Armstrong was deported and returned to the US on July 2, 2022, after which extradited to Travis County Jail in Austin on July 5, 2022.
She is presently held on the Travis County Jail in Austin, with a bond set at $3.5 million. She pleaded not responsible to the costs.
