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A judge says he'll consider a Hannibal murder suspect's request for a new magistrate.
Thirty-three-year-old Manuel G. Cazares is asking St. Charles County Circuit Judge Ted House to recuse himself.
House on Thursday said he would consider the request. A decision could be issued by next week.
Cazares, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action in the Feb. 28, 2009, stabbing deaths of 27-year-old Amanda R. Thomas and 25-year-old C. Patrick Epley.
Cazares' trial still is set for Nov. 1 in St. Charles County, where it was moved on a change of venue. He remained in the Marion County Jail at Palmyra on $1 million bond.
The Courier-Post's Brent Engel was the only area journalist in the courtroom Thursday, and will have exclusive details behind Cazares' request in Friday's print edition of the newspaper.
A judge says he'll consider a Hannibal murder suspect's request for a new magistrate.
Thirty-three-year-old Manuel G. Cazares is asking St. Charles County Circuit Judge Ted House to recuse himself.
House on Thursday said he would consider the request. A decision could be issued by next week.
Cazares, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action in the Feb. 28, 2009, stabbing deaths of 27-year-old Amanda R. Thomas and 25-year-old C. Patrick Epley.
Cazares' trial still is set for Nov. 1 in St. Charles County, where it was moved on a change of venue. He remained in the Marion County Jail at Palmyra on $1 million bond.
The Courier-Post's Brent Engel was the only area journalist in the courtroom Thursday, and will have exclusive details behind Cazares' request in Friday's print edition of the newspaper.
