It has been almost 4 and half years since Brandi Peters and her three kids were murdered. The man accused of killing the family was set to stand trial Monday, but the case has been postponed, said the court clerk.
According to the court, a motion was filed to delay the trail after the lead Prosecutor Jack Campbell had to undergo emergency surgery. Jury selection was supposed to start on March 23 but has now been moved to start on June 22.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement sat on DNA evidence for more than two years that could point to another suspect in the 2010 killing of Brandi Peters and her three young children.
A motion filed Friday by the defense attorney for Henry Segura, who is set to stand trial in two weeks on capital murder charges, revealed a FDLE crime lab analyst was ordered by her supervisor to disregard findings by the FBI that DNA evidence found at the crime scene was a partial match to a convicted international drug trafficker.
Updated By: Julie Montanaro
October 7, 2015
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A judge has set a new trial date for a Tallahassee man accused of a quadruple murder.
Henry Segura is now scheduled to stand trial on February 22, 2016.
He's accused in the 2010 murders of Brandi Peters and her three young children, including his own three-year-old son.
Segura was set to stand trial in March 2015, but the trial was postponed after the defense raised questions about a delay in FDLE turning over DNA evidence in the case.
Depositions focusing on that DNA evidence are scheduled for December.
Segura was expected to go on trial at the end of this month however, Friday morning it was ruled that the trial date will be moved to August 22nd.
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Segura was expected to go to trial at the end of August. However, his attorney asked to travel to Italy to get a DNA sample from a known drug trafficker whose DNA they say was found at the scene.
Segura is now scheduled to go to trial in March 2017.
A Tallahassee man accused of a quadruple murder is expected in court Tuesday, just one day after the Florida Supreme Court indicated death penalty cases could go forward.
Trial will go on as scheduled next week for quadruple murder suspect Henry Segura.
The state made a motion for the trial to be continued saying the defense wasn't ready for a speedy trial with new information and the number of motions made after the request. But the judge struck it down.
There was also discussion in court about one of the witnesses in the trial and whether the defense improperly obtained her statement.
A hearing will be held about that during the trial.
Henry Segura’s lead attorney, Chuck Hobbs, has stepped aside from the six-year-old quadruple murder case because of a conflict with a witness statement.
The trial was continued in a last-minute hearing Friday, just days before the three-week trial was supposed to begin. The trial was slated to start with jury selection Monday morning.
Segura, who is facing the death penalty, himself told Leon Circuit Judge James Hankinson he wanted Hobbs removed due to a conflict involving a witness statement collected from a woman the attorney was representing in a separate case.
Segura's second attorney, Nate Prince, will stay on the case and an out-of-town attorney qualified to handle death penalty cases will be brought in.
After a last-minute delay just days ahead of the quadruple murder trial of Henry Segura, a Leon County circuit judge on Tuesday set a new date for this summer.
Segura, 38, is scheduled to face a jury July 31, after being held in the Leon County Jail nearly six years. He is accused of the 2010 killing of his girlfriend Brandi Peters, her twin 6-year-old daughters, Tamiyah and Taniyah Peters, and the couples 3-year-old son, JaVante Segura.
He faces the death penalty.
The man accused of killing his girlfriend, her two children and their child together, made an appearance in court Wednesday.
Henry Segura's hearing came after issues arose about a witness statement from a woman Segura's attorney, Chuck Hobbs, represented in another case.
Henry Segura was in court Thursday morning for what's called a pre-trial hearing. Both the prosecution and the defense say they're ready for trial.
A related hearing is scheduled for next Thursday, and the trial is scheduled to start on Monday, July 31st.
Henry Segura will go on trial for four murders next week despite portions of the bizarre, last-minute claims of a man who says he ordered the killings being allowed as evidence. Also, DNA that could point to another suspect will be presented to a jury.
Jury selection starts Monday and is expected to last two days. The trial is scheduled for two weeks.
Segura's involvement in the murders has been disputed by his attorneys who point to a partial DNA match found at the scene that has been linked to a Colombian national, Angel Avila-Quinones. Now living in Italy, Avila-Quinones worked for Los Zetas, the same Mexican cartel Peters worked for.
During a pretrial hearing Thursday, James Carlos Santos, a Vice Lords gang member, claimed that he, from prison, ordered Peters and the children to be killed because she was skimming cash while working for a drug-running cartel.
By Tuesday, attorneys expect to impanel 12 jurors and alternates in Segura's trial. Opening arguments are set to start Wednesday.
The 38-year-old could face the death penalty if convicted in the 2010 murders of his ex-girlfriend Brandi Peters, her twin 6-year-old daughters and his own 3-year-old son.