Naresh appeared in a Manassas court after a judicial and domestic court judge approved an appeal from his defense that moved his trial to Prince William County Circuit Court on charges of concealing a dead body.
Thursday's motion hearing is for a judge to waive a grand jury. Due to the lack of a Nepalese interpreter, the judge rescheduled a 10 a.m. hearing to 11:30 p.m
Recent motions by Naresh's public defender have only made some community members believe he's trying to expedite an impending trial.
Naresh Bhatt, the husband of missing Manassas Park mother Mamta Kafle Bhatt, is back in front of a Judge Thursday as his defense looks to advance several reques
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Come on VA/News 7, more likely 11:30 AM, not PM!
IMO, waiving a GJ Indictment will not necessarily expedite an impending trial since I think waiving the GJ will mean that there will have to be a preliminary hearing to establish probable cause.
Regardless of Naresh's options exercised, all defendants have a right to a speedy trial.
Virginia has a specific statute that addresses what’s considered a speedy trial in felonies and misdemeanor cases on appeal to the circuit court in our commonwealth. Under
Virginia Code § 19.2-243, the following rules apply.
If the court finds probable cause that an individual has committed a felony and is in custody until their trial, the trial must be conducted
within five months of probable cause being established. If the person isn’t in jail awaiting trial, the trial must be held
within nine months of the probable cause hearing.
(If there was no preliminary hearing, or the accused waived the preliminary hearing, the five or nine-month deadline runs from the
date of the indictment or presentation against the accused).
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