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Trial in Mayetta Murder Case Postponed

By Greg Bebermeyer

11/18/2016

(KNZA)--The jury trial for a Mayetta man accused of the November 2015 stabbing death of a Mayetta woman has been postponed until the spring of next year.

A judge made the decision during a hearing this week in Jackson County District Court because he had not received the final report yet on a psychological evaluation that was performed on 50-year-old Wilson Noriega.

The trial was rescheduled to begin May 15th. It had originally been scheduled to begin December 12th, and is the second time the trial has been pushed back.

Noriega is charged with first-degree murder and two drug counts stemming from the fatal stabbing of 49-year-old Leann Sanchez early November 21st of last year at a residence on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Reservation where the two lived.

He also faces charges in two other separate cases, with trials in those cases to be held following the conclusion of the murder trail.

Noriega remains in the Jackson County Jail, held on a $1 million bond.

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