Illegal immigrant charged in Laken Riley murder ‘fast-tracking’ to life in prison: attorney
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Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra will appear in an Athens, Georgia, courtroom on Friday for the beginning of his trial. He is accused of killing Riley on UGA's campus.
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Holloway told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that he does not "understand the tactics" of Ibarra's defense asking for a bench trial over a jury trial on Tuesday, which state prosecutors agreed to and Judge Patrick Haggard granted. Ibarra's trial is now scheduled to begin on Friday instead of Monday, when a jury trial would have taken place.
"He's fast-tracking himself to life without parole by doing this," Holloway said. "It certainly will speed things up. … From a legal perspective, I don't know why the defense would do this."
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