MOLLIE TIBBETTS: Iowa v Cristhian Bahena Rivera for murder of jogger *GUILTY*

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A first-degree murder charge was filed on Tuesday against a young man in the case of missing Iowa jogger Mollie Tibbetts, state officials said Tuesday.

The suspect, 24-year-old Cristhian Rivera, is an undocumented immigrant who lives in the rural area where the college student vanished one month ago, according to Rick Rahn of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

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Body found believed to be missing Iowa jogger; murder charge filed

A body was found Tuesday in rural Iowa during the search for missing jogger Mollie Tibbetts, state officials said.
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Attorneys, prosecutors ask for 2021 trial for suspect in Mollie Tibbetts slaying, citing COVID-19 concerns

A prosecutor says "the numerous hurdles that will be created by the COVID-19 restrictions" make a January 2021 trial date more attractive.
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Attorneys, prosecutors ask for 2021 trial for suspect in Mollie Tibbetts slaying, citing COVID-19 concerns

The trial for a man accused in the 2018 killing of a University of Iowa student as she jogged near her hometown likely won't start until next year.

A joint motion filed Monday by prosecutors and defense attorneys for Cristhian Bahena Rivera — the 26-year-old man charged in the murder of Mollie Tibbetts — asks the court to push back the trial because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Scott Brown, an assistant attorney general who is helping the Poweshiek County Attorney's Office prosecute the case, wrote that a backlog of cases as well as "the numerous hurdles that will be created by the COVID-19 restrictions" make a January 2021 trial date more attractive. Bahena Rivera has waived his right to a speedy trial so those still reserving that right should go first, the motion states.
 
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Trial for man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts relocated again, scheduled for 2021

Instead of a September trial in Sioux City, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts, will have a January trial in Davenport.
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Trial for man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts relocated again, scheduled for 2021

An Iowa judge has pushed back and relocated the trial for a man accused of abducting and killing a 20-year-old college student as she jogged in her hometown.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera will now face his first-degree murder charge in January 2021 at the Scott County Courthouse instead of in Woodbury County, as previously ordered. Bahena Rivera, a farmhand, is accused in 2018 stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn, Iowa.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys last month asked Judge Joel D. Yates, of Iowa's Eighth Judicial District, to move the trial from September to 2021. Yates on Friday granted the joint motion, scheduling the trial for Jan. 25, 2021 in Davenport.
 
SheWhoMustNotBeNamed said:
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Trial for man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts relocated again, scheduled for 2021

Instead of a September trial in Sioux City, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts, will have a January trial in Davenport.
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Trial for man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts relocated again, scheduled for 2021

An Iowa judge has pushed back and relocated the trial for a man accused of abducting and killing a 20-year-old college student as she jogged in her hometown.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera will now face his first-degree murder charge in January 2021 at the Scott County Courthouse instead of in Woodbury County, as previously ordered. Bahena Rivera, a farmhand, is accused in 2018 stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn, Iowa.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys last month asked Judge Joel D. Yates, of Iowa's Eighth Judicial District, to move the trial from September to 2021. Yates on Friday granted the joint motion, scheduling the trial for Jan. 25, 2021 in Davenport.
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So we have a change of venue and her family will be getting into three years of the terrible process on top of her death... I guess the prosecution almost has to agree... Call me a cynic but ya have to make sure the defendant has every chance or the victim's family will have years of appeals... Which they likely may have anyhow... Our system is broken... Imo. And they all had better get things back on track Covid or no because the calendars are all far enough behind imo...

Jmo. Omo.
 
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Money raised by 4th grade students in Tibbetts’ honor donated to children’s hospital

Money raised by a group of fourth-grade students in Iowa has been formally donated to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, two years after the body of Mollie Tibbetts was found.
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Money raised by 4th grade students in Tibbetts’ honor donated to children’s hospital

Money raised by a group of fourth-grade students in Iowa has been formally donated to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, two years after the body of Mollie Tibbetts was found.

The kids raised $2,028.47, which family members of Tibbetts’ presented to the children’s hospital on Friday.

The family members present called the experience giving the money to the hospital as “bringing a sliver of hope” into their lives.
 
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Jury trials postponed until February 2021

OTTUMWA — Due to the rise of COVID-19, jury trials in Iowa have been paused.
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Jury trials postponed until February 2021​


Due to the rise of COVID-19, jury trials in Iowa have been paused.

That order by the Iowa Supreme Court, issued Tuesday, includes the trial of two men charged for a 2018 shootout with police in Ottumwa that was set to begin next week.

Jury trials mean lots of people showing up to courthouses across the state for the laborious process of jury selections, particularly in high-profile trials where jury pools can consist of more than 100 people.

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen said the risk is simply too high given current COVID-19 spread across the state.


Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man charged in the August 2018 murder of Mollie Tibbetts, was slated to go to trial in January, as well, and will be postponed. Bahena Rivera was charged with first-degree murder in Poweshiek County, but the trial has been moved to Scott County. The disappearance, and ultimate discovery of Tibbetts’ body, made national headlines.
 
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Jury trials postponed until February 2021

OTTUMWA — Due to the rise of COVID-19, jury trials in Iowa have been paused.
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Jury trials postponed until February 2021​


Due to the rise of COVID-19, jury trials in Iowa have been paused.

That order by the Iowa Supreme Court, issued Tuesday, includes the trial of two men charged for a 2018 shootout with police in Ottumwa that was set to begin next week.

Jury trials mean lots of people showing up to courthouses across the state for the laborious process of jury selections, particularly in high-profile trials where jury pools can consist of more than 100 people.

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen said the risk is simply too high given current COVID-19 spread across the state.


Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man charged in the August 2018 murder of Mollie Tibbetts, was slated to go to trial in January, as well, and will be postponed. Bahena Rivera was charged with first-degree murder in Poweshiek County, but the trial has been moved to Scott County. The disappearance, and ultimate discovery of Tibbetts’ body, made national headlines.
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I don't like this. Justice is already too slow for victims. We had a sentencing with Covid restrictions and I really don't like the lack of everyone in the room seeing everyone in person but IF Covid is going to be a continued concern, which it clearly is, in the meantime, they need to do something about this so the wheels of justice keep turning, they were snail paced before Covid. That is not to mention the absolute backlog and years it will take once things change or if we ever go back to normal with a vaccine or something.

Perhaps they are going to need to test and sequester juror member options of the pool until people are picked and then test and sequester the jury, I don't know the answer but there are too many delays happening and enough already occurred before Covid imo.

On the other hand, Mollie was killed in 2018 and three years was not uncommon before Covid. However, that is horrible on victim's families as it is and it just points out how bad it already was...
 
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I don't like this. Justice is already too slow for victims. We had a sentencing with Covid restrictions and I really don't like the lack of everyone in the room seeing everyone in person but IF Covid is going to be a continued concern, which it clearly is, in the meantime, they need to do something about this so the wheels of justice keep turning, they were snail paced before Covid. That is not to mention the absolute backlog and years it will take once things change or if we ever go back to normal with a vaccine or something.

Perhaps they are going to need to test and sequester juror member options of the pool until people are picked and then test and sequester the jury, I don't know the answer but there are too many delays happening and enough already occurred before Covid imo.

On the other hand, Mollie was killed in 2018 and three years was not uncommon before Covid. However, that is horrible on victim's families as it is and it just points out how bad it already was...
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And once things get rolling again, the backlog is going to be atrocious.
 
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Murder trial delayed again for Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts

Cristhian Bahena Rivera's murder trial is now scheduled for May 17 in Davenport.
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Murder trial delayed again for Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts​

The trial of the man accused of stabbing to death Iowa university student Mollie Tibbetts in 2018 has been postponed again due to COVID-19.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera had been scheduled to stand trial beginning Jan. 25, but the Iowa Supreme Court in November ordered that all jury trials statewide be put on hold until Feb. 1 due to the state's rapid growth of positive cases and hospitalizations. On Wednesday, the court rescheduled the trial to May 17, and moved a scheduled pretrial conference to April 15.

The trial will remain in Davenport, as previously ordered.
 
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Prosecutors in Mollie Tibbetts trial accuse defense of filing illegitimate subpoena for Tibbetts’ banking records

State prosecutors in the trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man accused of murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts in 2018, have accused the defense of an illegitimate “fishing expedition” by secretly subpoenaing Tibbetts’ bank records. Bahena Rivera, 26, is accused of murdering...
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Prosecutors in Mollie Tibbetts trial accuse defense of filing illegitimate subpoena for Tibbetts’ banking records​

State prosecutors in the trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man accused of murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts in 2018, have accused the defense of an illegitimate “fishing expedition” by secretly subpoenaing Tibbetts’ bank records.

In a motion filed Tuesday, the state asked the court to dismiss the subpoena and accuses Bahena Rivera’s lawyers of intentionally hiding from the state the subpoena, filed by the Poweshiek County Clerk, for Tibbetts’ bank records from Bankers Trust in Des Moines.


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Prosecutors accuse defense of filing illegitimate subpoenas in Mollie Tibbetts case for “fishing expedition”

Prosecutors in the murder case against the man charged with killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts are accusing the …
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Prosecutors accuse defense of filing illegitimate subpoenas in Mollie Tibbetts case for 'fishing expedition'​

Prosecutors in the murder case against the man charged with killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts are accusing the defense of attempting to hide a subpoena meant as a “fishing expedition” of Tibbetts’ banking records.

Prosecutors weren’t aware of the subpoena until after it had it had been served on Bankers Trust in Des Moines and returned to court records Jan. 21, according to a motion filed Tuesday by Assistant Iowa Attorney General Scott Brown.
 
Okay, not sure what to think here. Not sure how it is in Iowa but I know of a case where records were subpoenaed and the other side is not informed of that and is not required to be but it is their job to keep up with what is filed once returns and service came and they did not and that was their mistake. It was not a criminal case so not sure if it is the same. They are processed by the clerk, not the judge, at least in what I saw.

On an entirely different note, why the defendant's bank records would have a thing to do with why the defendant killed her, I have absolutely no idea. I still would imagine there has to be a reason relating to the type of case at hand.

Do not take my word for it, just basing it on things I have seen, different type of matter and different state.
 
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Mollie Tibbetts murder: Judge stays out of evidentiary dispute in Bahena Rivera case

Prosecutors had accused defense of illegal 'fishing expedition' into murder victim, while defense said clerical mixup was to blame.
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Mollie Tibbetts murder: Judge stays out of evidentiary dispute in Bahena Rivera case​

The judge overseeing the trial of murder suspect Cristhian Bahena Rivera is declining at this point to get involved in a subpoena spat between prosecutors and defense attorneys.

In a Tuesday ruling, Judge Joel Yates said the challenge to the subpoena is moot. He declined to issue an order "admonishing" the defense, as prosecutors had asked, but said he takes both parties at their word that they will adhere to evidentiary discovery rules going forward.
 
The trial is set to begin at 8:00 a.m. on May 17th at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport.

Jury selection is expected to take two days with opening statements planned for 9:00 a.m., May 19th. Including jury selection, the proceedings are expected to last 10 days.
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Man charged with Mollie Tibbetts’ murder makes pretrial appearance in court

During the pretrial conference Thursday morning at the Poweshiek County Courthouse, plans for the trial were outlined.
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