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Updated: 6:53 PM Oct 30, 2009
Murder Trial Set for WV Man Accused of Killing Fellow Inmate
KINGWOOD, W.Va. (AP) A man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the Preston County Jail in 2005 will stand trial next year.
Posted: 1:00 PM Oct 31, 2009 |
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A man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the Preston County Jail in 2005 will stand trial next year.
Leonard Wotring III has pleaded not guilty in the first-degree murder of Timothy Daft, of Independence, who had been in the Kingwood jail on charges of sexually abusing a toddler.
Wotring was indicted last week, and his trial is set for January 12.
He is now an inmate at the Mount Olive Correctional Center, serving 3 to 15 years for the attempted murder of his grandfather.
Daft's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming Daft was attacked by Wotring and other inmates. It claims then-Sheriff Ron Crites knew about the attack and did nothing, then concealed information from Daft's family.
The death was initially labeled a suicide.
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