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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The alleged getaway operator successful the high-profile sidesplitting of Caleb Quick returned to tribunal connected Monday. The teen miss wore an orangish sweater and bluish pants successful the courtroom closed to cameras.
Her mother, father, stepfather and gramps sat successful the beforehand enactment down her. She ne'er looked astatine them and alternatively focused consecutive up arsenic her attorneys requested a delay.
"There's immoderate further find the prosecution volition beryllium providing," defence lawyer Jeff Hammerschmidt told Action News.
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He is present combing done telephone records arsenic helium defends his juvenile client, who Action News is not naming, against a execution charge.
She is accused of sidesplitting Caleb Quick astatine a Clovis McDonald's successful April. Investigators judge her fellow changeable Quick and past sped disconnected successful a achromatic Tesla, with the miss down the wheel.
"There's thing successful immoderate of the telephone records that we spot that shows that the 2 of them were conspiring to termination her friend," Hammerschmidt said.
The victim's begetter believes the grounds tells a antithetic story.
"Were they readying this?" Action News asked.
"Oh, absolutely," Steve Quick said. "They wouldn't some beryllium charged with the aforesaid transgression if she were conscionable a random idiosyncratic connected the thoroughfare that helium didn't know."
Quick says helium has been piecing unneurotic the transgression himself.
"I've gone to the religion wherever they each utilized to go, gone to the McDonald's," helium said. "I've sat successful determination (and) looked astatine each the cameras. I've talked to a batch of kids who knew him."
Prosecutors are present pursuing a "transfer hearing" to determination the lawsuit to big court, wherever a execution condemnation could bring a beingness situation sentence.
Attorneys program to docket that proceeding connected December 9, estimating it could statesman successful February.
"Do you deliberation there's immoderate accidental of this lawsuit resolving for your lawsuit without going to a trial?" Action News asked.
"Yes, there's a anticipation of that," Hammerschmidt said. He added that negotiations are not yet underway.
With the tribunal process playing out, the miss and her one-time fellow are acceptable to stay successful juvenile hall, wherever Action News has learned they tin spot each different done windows, but cannot communicate.
"They're getting a owed process that my lad didn't get, and that's not fair," Quick said. "But, luckily, we unrecorded successful a civilian society, wherever if they did thing similar this, we got to spell done the channels, and I judge successful that precise overmuch so."
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