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MURDER CASE -- The murder trial for Jesus Manuel Holguin-Albo. which was scheduled to begin on Monday, has been canceled, and Holguin-Albo will be in Provo's 4th District Court today for a change-of-plea hearing. Prosecutor Chad Grunander said he expects the case to be resolved at the hearing and that "significant steps" would be taken.
Holguin-Albo's case has dragged on for about two years because a number of attorneys have had to be removed from the case. The public defender's office, which originally represented Holguin-Albo, was removed after public defenders came into possession of a bloody T-shirt that had allegedly been used to pick up a knife, and the replacement defense attorney asked to withdraw from the case after a witness approached him at a bank and began talking to him about the case. Two prosecutors were removed from the case after one of them told the judge that he could possibly be called as a witness due to statements made to him by a witness. Holguin-Albo, 29, is charged with the May 2006 killing of Raul Gonzales, whom police say Holguin-Albo stabbed in the neck after they got into a fight at the defendant's Provo apartment. |
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