Sep. 15--Leslie Likelihood is schedule to look earlier than a Kern County Superior decide Wednesday.
Likelihood, 52, is scheduled to look for a listening to on a movement. She is accused of capturing her husband to demise in August 2013 and leaving his physique close to a industrial orchard a number of miles northwest of Bakersfield.
That is Likelihood's second trial. Her first led to a mistrial.
Paul Cadman, Likelihood's former court-appointed lawyer, needed to excuse himself from his service attributable to a battle, and a mistrial was declared June 28 throughout jury choice. A brand new lawyer might be appointed to Likelihood by the Indigent Protection Program.
Likelihood was charged within the homicide of her husband, Todd Likelihood, 45, on Aug. 25, 2013. If convicted, she might face life in jail.
Prosecutors say the couple drove that morning to the realm of Noriega Highway close to Enos Lane, the place Likelihood is alleged to have shot and killed her husband. Prosecutors say she deserted the automobile in a close-by neighborhood and returned dwelling by taxi and on foot.
Likelihood was first arrested days after her husband's physique was discovered, however was launched days later when prosecutors requested additional inquiry from investigators with the Kern County Sheriff's Workplace. She was arrested once more in December 2016.
Likelihood, who was principal at Fairview Elementary College through the time of the capturing, was anticipated to obtain round $250,000 from her husband's life insurance coverage insurance policies, in response to courtroom paperwork.
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