GERING, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for a Wyoming teenager convicted of the 2014 strangulation of a Scotts Bluff County jailer will argue in court this week for a new trial, alleging jury misconduct.
Sixteen-year-old Dylan Cardeilhac, of Torrington, Wyoming was convicted in November of second-degree murder in the Valentine's Day attack on 24-year-old jailer Amanda Baker. Security video shows Cardeilhac choking Baker after she entered his detention center cell. She died two days later.
On Friday, a hearing will be held in Scotts Bluff County District Court on Cardeilhac's motion for a new trial. His attorney, Jim Mowbray with the Commission on Public Advocacy, tells Scottsbluff radio station KNEB that a juror acted out the strangulation, leading another juror to find the teen guilty of a more serious crime.
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