Plea for new trial date is rejected
A judge denied a request by Chaz Higgs to postpone his June 18 trial on charges that he killed his wife, former Nevada Controller Kathy Augustine.
In arguing for a new trial date, Higgs’ lawyers maintained that an FBI lab had refused to provide its complete report concluding that Augustine had been drugged last July.
The judge agreed with prosecutors, who said that the initial report was turned over in December and that defense lawyers should not have waited until now to ask for more information.
Higgs, 42, a former emergency room nurse, is accused of killing Augustine by injecting her with succinylcholine, a powerful muscle relaxant.
He has pleaded not guilty.
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