A pretrial conference in Mayor Roger Hedgecock’s...

A pretrial conference in Mayor Roger Hedgecock’s felony perjury and conspiracy case was postponed on Wednesday because of a schedule conflict for the mayor’s attorney. Wednesday’s court session, rescheduled for Friday, is a so-called readiness conference, at which a judge attempts to help both sides avoid a trial through plea bargaining--a possibility that Hedgecock has described as unlikely. Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Kremer postponed the hearing on the mayor’s retrial because Hedgecock’s attorney, Michael Pancer, was in court on another case Wednesday. Hedgecock’s first trial on the charges, which stem from alleged improprieties in his personal and campaign finances, ended in a mistrial last month with the jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction. At another court hearing later this month, Pancer plans to ask to be relieved from the trial because it conflicts with his work on other cases.