I got in! I copied the meat of Chicago Tribune article: (I left out the parts that are redundant). My bold on the date.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...i-heather-mack-appeal-met-20150506-story.html
Saying he would not be "emotionally blackmailed," a Cook County judge overseeing the $1.56 million trust of a Chicago teen convicted of playing a role in her mother's murder in Bali held off Wednesday on immediately releasing more funds.
Prosecutors on the luxury Indonesian island are appealing Heather Mack's April 21 conviction, which prompted her trust attorneys this week to file an emergency motion for another $200,000 for legal fees.
Cook County Judge Neil Cohen, who oversees the trust case, earlier released about $119,000 to pay for Mack's defense during the trial and a few thousand more toward her food and medical expenses.
In a letter included in the emergency request for another $200,000, her overseas attorney, Ary Soenardi, said he will continue to represent Mack in the appeal process only if his fee is "paid quickly and in 1 payment."
On Wednesday, as attorneys appeared for the emergency motion, Cohen said he would not be "emotionally blackmailed."
He said Mack's request for more money is not an emergency and he won't release another penny until he holds a hearing to determine if she still is entitled to her trust.
At issue is Illinois' slayer statute. Under the law, a person who intentionally and unjustifiably caused the death of another person cannot receive property as a result of the death of that person.
"She's now been convicted," Cohen said. "I'm not going to stick my head in the sand and say it didn't happen."
Lawyers are due back in Cohen's courtroom
May 14. Attorneys said they are awaiting written clarification of Mack's actual criminal conviction, which was delivered last month in a verbal opinion in Denpasar District Court.
Three months before her death, Sheila von Wiese-Mack named her only child the sole beneficiary to the trust. But, von Wiese-Mack tapped her attorney brother, William, to oversee the money until her often-troubled daughter's 30th birthday. William Wiese has repeatedly raised concerns that the money is being used illegally for bribes rather than for legitimate attorney fees and a fair trial.
It's unclear on what basis Indonesian prosecutors are seeking an appeal. The judicial panel sentenced Schaefer to the term prosecutors had recommended. For Mack, they recommended a 15-year term. Prosecutors cited the young couple's apparent remorse and recent birth of their daughter as reason behind the lenient recommendation — a move that outraged the slain woman's family.
Prosecutors said Mack helped Schaefer stuff her mother's body into the suitcase by sitting on it to enable Schaefer to close it — a point Mack vehemently denied in interviews with the Tribune.
The couple then placed the suitcase in the trunk of a taxi and told the driver they were going to check out of the hotel and would return, but they never did, prosecutors said. Instead, after being denied their passports from the mother's security box inside the hotel, Mack and Schaefer slipped out a back door.
Prosecutors initially said Mack, of Chicago, and Schaefer, 21, of Oak Park, plotted to kill Mack's mother because she didn't support their relationship, and they said Mack once proposed that Schaefer hire a hit man for $50,000.
