Posted on 10/23/2019 4:42:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The illegal alien accused of murdering 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts in 2018 has successfully lobbied for the trial against him to be delayed yet again.
In August 2018, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was charged with Mollie Tibbetts’ murder after police said he admitted to confronting and chasing down the young woman.
Following a nationwide search, Tibbetts’ body was found in a cornfield in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The illegal alien lived in a region of Iowa that was surrounded by sanctuary cities, as Breitbart News noted, and worked on a dairy farm using a stolen ID and Social Security card after allegedly crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as a child.
This week, Bahena Rivera’s defense attorneys were able to successfully get the trial moved to February, telling the court that they needed additional time to gather expert witnesses for forensic evidence released this month, according to the Des Moines Register.
The attorneys said not granting another trial delay would be a violation of Bahena Rivera’s constitutional rights to a fair trial. Now, the trial will begin February 4, 2020.
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PING!
Meanwhile, Mollie Tibbets gets no delay.
...... having his trial moved after he claimed that the county where the trial was set to be heard had a population that was too white and not Hispanic enough.
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What a load of BS.
If they’re citizens, that’s all that should matter. If the lawyers cannot prove bias, then there should be no case to move the trial.
Sadly Iowa has no death penaly...this guy deserves it.
In violation of his “constitutional rights?” Unflippin-believable.
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