Feb. 11--A former elementary faculty principal charged with homicide in her husband's taking pictures is due in court docket Friday for a listening to to find out if attorneys are ready to proceed to trial later this month.
Leslie Likelihood, 52, faces a life time period in jail if convicted of the first-degree homicide cost filed towards her.
Likelihood was first arrested days after the physique of Todd Likelihood, 45, was discovered the morning of Aug. 25, 2013, in a discipline off a mud part of Noriega Highway close to Enos Lane.
She was launched days later when prosecutors requested additional investigation on the a part of sheriff's investigators. Detectives rearrested her in December 2016, and she or he's been held with out bail ever since.
Prosecutors say Likelihood and her husband arrived within the discipline in Todd Likelihood's Ford Mustang, and she or he shot him. She then deserted the automobile in a southwest Bakersfield neighborhood earlier than getting dwelling by utilizing a taxi and strolling, court docket paperwork allege.
She denied leaving her home the morning of her husband's demise, paperwork mentioned, however surveillance cameras captured her at a number of areas as she made her manner dwelling.
Likelihood stood to obtain $250,000 from her husband's life insurance coverage insurance policies, the paperwork mentioned. It is alleged she discovered about felony investigative strategies and tried to cowl her tracks by way of data she gained after attending a "CSI" exhibit in Las Vegas about two months earlier than the killing.
She was principal at Fairview Elementary College on the time of the slaying.
On Wednesday, a person charged with gunning down three folks in 2010 will likely be in court docket for a listening to concerning his competency to face trial.
Tokunbo Okuwoga, 30, shot lifeless three folks inside a Bakersfield home to get rid of witnesses towards him in reference to a beating and tried theft case, in keeping with authorities.
These killed within the 2010 shootings had been Felipe Juarez Bravo Jr., 21, Bravo's live-in girlfriend, Daina Caraveo, 22, and Bravo's father, Felipe Palacio Bravo, 43.
Okuwoga faces 14 prices, together with three counts of first-degree homicide.
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