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03-16-2009, 11:25 PM
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New trial date set in Laci Green murder case
Mar. 16, 2009
A new murder trial date of June 1 was set Friday for the ex-boyfriend of Westland nursing student Laci Green, whose body was found last May 7 in a grassy field on the city's southwest side.
Barring a guilty plea or a new glitch in the case, 25-year-old Robert James-the-First Howard of Dearborn Heights is scheduled to stand trial in Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Michael Hathaway's courtroom for premeditated first-degree murder.
Howard was supposed to stand trial in January, but the case was delayed amid some legal maneuvers by defense attorney Bertram Johnson. However, the new trial date was confirmed Friday by Hathaway's court clerk.
Green, a MotorCity Casino employee and Schoolcraft College nursing student, was found strangled to death last May 7 in a field near the Dunn Court home where she lived. Westland police Sgt. Steve Borisch testified during a preliminary hearing last summer that he believed Howard was angry because Green had broken up with him and was seeing another man.
A taxicab driver has testified that he gave Howard a ride to Green's neighborhood on the night that she was killed. Moreover, the victim's parents, Edward and Barbara Green, encountered Howard outside their home just a few hours before their daughter's body was found about 6 a.m.
Howard has denied killing Green, and Johnson has indicated that the case will likely go to trial “because of the nature of the (circumstantial) evidence.”
http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20090315/NEWS24/903150560/1041/rss22
New trial date set in Laci Green murder case
Mar. 16, 2009
A new murder trial date of June 1 was set Friday for the ex-boyfriend of Westland nursing student Laci Green, whose body was found last May 7 in a grassy field on the city's southwest side.
Barring a guilty plea or a new glitch in the case, 25-year-old Robert James-the-First Howard of Dearborn Heights is scheduled to stand trial in Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Michael Hathaway's courtroom for premeditated first-degree murder.
Howard was supposed to stand trial in January, but the case was delayed amid some legal maneuvers by defense attorney Bertram Johnson. However, the new trial date was confirmed Friday by Hathaway's court clerk.
Green, a MotorCity Casino employee and Schoolcraft College nursing student, was found strangled to death last May 7 in a field near the Dunn Court home where she lived. Westland police Sgt. Steve Borisch testified during a preliminary hearing last summer that he believed Howard was angry because Green had broken up with him and was seeing another man.
A taxicab driver has testified that he gave Howard a ride to Green's neighborhood on the night that she was killed. Moreover, the victim's parents, Edward and Barbara Green, encountered Howard outside their home just a few hours before their daughter's body was found about 6 a.m.
Howard has denied killing Green, and Johnson has indicated that the case will likely go to trial “because of the nature of the (circumstantial) evidence.”
http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20090315/NEWS24/903150560/1041/rss22