Alleged “Craigslist Killer” Philip Markoff likely won’t see trial until 2011, his attorneys told The Associated Press. The trial was previously expected to occur next month.
Last week, a judge postponed setting Markoff’s trial date until June 29. The judge also set a July 21 deadline for Markoff’s lawyers to file a motion to suppress comments Markoff made to the police after his arrest. If the motion is successful, those statements cannot be used in the trial.
Markoff, a 24-year-old former Boston University School of Medicine student, is charged with robbing and murdering Julissa Brisman, a masseuse he met on the website Craigslist, in the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston in April of 2009. He has pled not guilty to those charges and similar charges stemming from another attack he reportedly made on a Las Vegas woman in the same hotel. He is being held in prison without bail.
The Daily Free Press was unable to reach Markoff’s lawyers for comment at press time.
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