D.C. judge grants retrial in 2001 killing of intern Chandra Levy
Source: Washington Post
A D.C. judge on Thursday granted a new trial to the man convicted of killing federal intern Chandra Levy in 2001, and prosecutors face steep challenges after acceding to the defense request to retry the case, attorneys and legal experts said.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald I. Fisher — who presided over the 2010 trial that resulted in Ingmar Guandique’s being sentenced to 60 years in prison — set aside the verdict and agreed to bring the case before a new judge and jury.
“Unless there is something else to be said, I would grant the motion for a new trial,” Fisher said in a brief hearing attended by Guandique, 34, who was dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit.
Levy was a 24-year-old intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared May 1, 2001, triggering a media sensation because police investigators at first suspected and then cleared Gary A. Condit, a married California congressman who was 30 years her senior and with whom Levy was having an affair. Levy’s remains were found a year later in Rock Creek Park, where it is believed she had been jogging.
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Yet another questionable "cellmate overheard a confession" conviction, apparently...
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