San Diego
The murder trial of former California Highway Patrol Officer Craig Peyer, who is charged with killing San Diego State University student Cara Knott, has been rescheduled to start Jan. 4.
Superior Court Judge Richard D. Huffman, who has been assigned to the case, ordered the postponement Tuesday because he is scheduled to fill in as an associate justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal in September and October. Peyer’s trial had been scheduled to start Sept. 14.
Peyer, 36, and a 13-year CHP veteran was fired by the state law enforcement agency in May. He is charged with killing Knott, 20, on Dec. 27. Knott was strangled on the isolated Mercy Road offramp on Interstate 15 and her body thrown 65 feet into a dry creekbed.
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