welcome to it's a crime i'm linda and today we are going to be talking about the gannon stout case
looks like leticia stoke is pulling more of her tactics and she's right on time when it
gets a little too quiet for her she comes out of the woodwork but before i get into it if you'd
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let's get into it on friday february 19 2021 there was a closed hearing with leticia stouk
it was a closed-door conflict hearing so it wasn't open to the public nor to the prosecution
only leticia and her lawyers and leticia was requesting new attorneys it said that this
type of hearing like this could have privileged communications between leticia and her attorneys
so that's why it's a closed hearing to everyone else and since this is leticia we are talking
about i'd like to first define conflict hearing a conflict hearing is where defendants generally
assert a conflict of interest with their legal team severe enough to merit severing ties and
getting new lawyers it'll be interesting to find out what the reason is leticia has for wanting or
acquiring new attorneys now there was a retired defense attorney who was interviewed and he said
that this type of request is usually overseen by a judge who is not affiliated with the case because
they may require defendants to share information that could affect their defense he also says
these type of requests are widely interpreted as delay tactics and he says they generally face
long odds he says i think the judges have a sense that if they grant a lot of these motions they're
just going to get more of them he says they lean against granting them when they walk in the room
he goes on to talk about what leticia would have to demonstrate in order to obtain new lawyers
and he says she must demonstrate there has been a disqualifying conflict of interest with her
legal team or an irretrievable breakdown in their relationship he says this is probably a dispute
over strategy or whether to take a deal or whether to negotiate or whether the client is competent or
not there could be more than one issue at stake now there wasn't a ruling at this hearing and so
now she'll be in court on wednesday february 24th for an aguayo hearing and this type of hearing is
typically used when a defendant wants to or is planning on representing themselves
maybe leticia stopped reading tales of eguardo and picked up some law books so now michael
allen district attorney in this case was also interviewed and here's what he had to say
the defendant was wanting to get new counsel what we got out of it instead was that the court
did not make a finding on that and instead set the case back to the original division for an arguello
advisement which essentially means typically and i'm speaking general terms here that somebody
wants to represent themselves michael allen did say that it would be speculation if leticia will
represent herself but time will tell and we'll see what happens and with all of leticia's shenanigans
i wouldn't doubt that she wanted to give that good old dr t try now michael said
that even with a change in counsel it won't change how they prosecute the case he says
absolutely not it's still a very serious case we still have to make sure that we satisfy
all the requirements of prosecuting a big case like this and we will continue to do that michael
did say that with this arguable advisement it can throw off the timeline of a case but he also
didn't mention if it will affect this case he says we have a tall task in front of us that
is making sure that we give any defendant that we have coming through this building is given a fair
process fair trial given all a discovery and we'll make sure that happens regardless of what happens
with the arguello advisement and makes sure that she has a fair trial and a fair process so this
advisement like i said is on february 24th at 3 pm and as of the time of this recording it's actually
held tomorrow and it should be open to the public now leticia's preliminary hearing is next month
on march 11th and 12th just over a year since she has been arrested she was arrested on march
2nd 2020 so i really hope that this is not pushed out we've been waiting quite some time for this
now also in the preliminary hearing the judge will decide if latisha will be eligible for bail or not
let me know if you think she will in the comments below now just as a little info snack there has
been more than 19 900 pages of discovery filed in the case as of june of last year
so i'm not sure where we're at right now and they said as well as 250 pieces of audio and
video evidence according to the court documents so in my opinion this is another stall tactic
we've seen many tactics from leticia over the last year and this one does not surprise me
it is going to be very surprising but yet at the same time not surprising if she actually wants to
represent herself i think she believes that she can and i'm sure she's going to give it a shot
i think she'll do everything she can to keep pushing the dates out i'm sure though that the
judge is seeing right through that so it's going to be interesting what happens tomorrow and what
happens in the near future let's have a chit chat below and talk about this we know when it
gets quiet we know leticia starts to act up it's just her pattern please subscribe if you haven't
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