DOVER, Del. (AP) - A federal judge has denied a defense request to transfer the stalking trial of relatives of a man who killed two people at a Delaware courthouse in 2013 to another state.
Tuesday's ruling comes from a Pennsylvania judge who was assigned to the Matusiewicz family case after Judge Gregory Sleet of Delaware recused himself last year.
Sleet and all other Delaware judges were recused after prosecutors disclosed the discovery of a purported "hit list" in courthouse gunman Thomas Matusiewicz's car that included Sleet's name.
Defense attorneys argued that in recusing himself last year, Sleet also ordered that the case be transferred outside Delaware.
But the Pennsylvania judge disagreed, noting that Sleet revised his recusal order last year to clarify that he was not ruling on the defense's transfer motion.
