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(NewsNation) — The fishy charged successful transportation to the decease of 37-year-old Maryland parent Rachel Morin is owed successful tribunal Friday morning.
Victor Martinez-Hernandez, an El Salvador national, volition look successful Harford County Circuit Court for a motions proceeding connected charges of rape, kidnapping and murder.
In a motions hearing, the justice volition perceive to arguments from the defence and prosecution regarding pretrial matters, specified arsenic grounds allowed astatine trial, a alteration of venue oregon excluding circumstantial witnesser testimony.
Rachel Morin, 37, was past seen live astatine astir 6 p.m. Saturday erstwhile she near to instrumentality a locomotion connected a quality trail. (Photo: Harford County Sheriff's Office)The prosecution oregon defence successful this lawsuit whitethorn petition a postponement of the motions hearing, according to the Morin household attorney. There were nary motions filed with the tribunal up of Friday’s hearing.
“While we anticipation for timely justice, it is imaginable that some parties whitethorn petition a postponement, which could hold the existent proceedings day of October 23, 2024. However, the household remains steadfast successful their pursuit of justness for Rachel, and we volition proceed to propulsion for accountability,” Randolph Rice, the Morin household lawyer and spokesperson, said successful a quality release.
If the proceeding is postponed, the proceedings scheduled for Oct. 23 would apt besides beryllium delayed. Cameras are not allowed successful the courtroom.
“The result of these motions whitethorn importantly interaction the absorption of the case,” the merchandise said.
Morin, a ma of five, was archetypal reported missing Aug. 5, 2023, and recovered the adjacent time connected a fashionable hiking way successful Harford County. Police began a 10-month nationwide manhunt for the fishy they believed to beryllium Martinez-Hernandez, who was 22 years aged astatine the clip of the killing.
He was arrested June 15 successful Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was officially indicted July 2 and denied bail, according to tribunal records.
The high-profile sidesplitting sparked nationalist outrage implicit the suspect’s migration status. Martinez-Hernandez entered the U.S. from El Salvador illegally connected astatine slightest 3 occasions past year, according to CBS News. He is besides wanted for execution successful his autochthonal country, according to the Tulsa Police Department.
