Posted on 09/12/2025 5:18:53 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Trial for Troy Davis, charged in the murder and attempted rape of a woman inside her Land Park home in 2021, will not begin until 2026.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman on Friday ordered attorneys to return Jan. 16 for a pre-trial hearing, at which time a date could be set for trial to begin.
Mary Kate Tibbetts, 61, was beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted Sept. 3, 2021, in her 11th Avenue home before it was set ablaze in a crime that shocked her Land Park neighborhood and resonated blocks away at the State Capitol and City Hall. Her body was recovered from the charred home. Davis, a parolee with a lengthy criminal history in Sacramento and Santa Cruz counties, was arrested days later on suspicion of murder in Tibbetts’ killing along with felony charges of entering a home for a burglary, assault with intent to commit rape, and two allegations that the 51-year-old Davis killed Tibbetts’ two dogs, Molly and Jenny. Davis did not know Tibbetts. Authorities said Davis broke into her home through a window and killed her dogs, then sexually assaulted and killed her before setting the house alight. The case ignited prosecutors’ anger at the time. Davis had been charged in a vehicle theft case that June, months before the 11th Avenue slaying, but was arrested and released on zero bail
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
5 years is not swift justice.
But it’s big money for the lawyers.
No punishment is too extreme. No pain is too much.
Davis, a parolee with a lengthy criminal history in Sacramento and Santa Cruz counties, was arrested days later on suspicion of murder in Tibbetts’ killing
Typical news story of the internet age.
Sure they tell you that trial won't begin until 2026.
They tell you that the crime happened in 2021.
They tell you that the criminal suspect was release on zero bail and that the prosecutors were outraged.
What they don't tell you is where the accused has been for 4 years.
Why has it taken 4 years to get to this point?
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