OMAHA, Neb. (AP) â The Nebraska Supreme Court has denied prosecutors’ request to delay the trial of a former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine had asked the high court to delay the first-degree murder trial of Anthony Garcia, which is set to begin Monday. Kleine had also asked the high court to vacate a judge’s decision excluding DNA analysis from trial.
The high court said Wednesday that it does not intervene in cases to control judicial discretion.
Garcia is charged in the March 2008 slayings of Dr. William Hunter’s 11-year-old son and the family’s housekeeper, as well as the May 2013 killings of Dr. Roger Brumback and his wife. Prosecutors say Garcia was seeking revenge over being fired from a Creighton University School of Medicine residency program.