Capital murder charges against a south Alabama man have been dropped after a six-year wait for trial.
Yeldon Lostchild, 29, was released from prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice as part of a plea deal with prosecutors, WPMI-TV reported.
Rothschild was one of two people charged with secret murder in connection with the 2017 shooting death of Donta Russell in Escambia County, Alabama. The case was scheduled to go to trial this week.
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Rothschild's lawyers had asked the judge to dismiss the charges. In a court filing, she said prosecutors have not produced any evidence linking him to the shooting in six years or failed to comply with “the court's orders to produce such evidence.” .
Yeldon Lostchild is released after being imprisoned for six years for murder without conclusive evidence.
“This is not a question of the state's evidence. This is a question of the lack of evidence. This man has been in prison for six years,” defense attorney Christine C. Hernandez told the television station. Ta.
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Escambia County District Attorney Stephen Billy told the department in an email that the capital murder charge was amended “in agreement with the obstruction of justice charge.”
“When a case is this old, the evidence tends to weaken, and that was the case in this case. We met the deadline and settled the case,” he said.
