Lambing team needs to review autopsy
Defense counsel for a Butler man charged in the death of a 4-year-old boy is still waiting to review autopsy evidence.
Chief Public Defender Kevin Flaherty told President Judge Thomas Doerr Wednesday that the forensic pathologist and medical expert hired by the defense has yet to review autopsy slides and forensic tissue samples taken in the homicide case against Keith Jordan Lambing, 20.
Lambing is charged with first-degree homicide, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with serious bodily injury, rape of a child and other charges in connection with the death of Bentley Thomas Miller on March 21.
Police say Lambing sexually assaulted the boy at the Super 8 motel on Route 8 in Butler Township, leaving him with injuries that resulted in his death.
Assistant District Attorney Terri Schultz told Doerr that there are no outstanding discovery issues aside from the pathology review, and items in the case requested by the defense have been turned over.
Doerr scheduled another status conference in the case in two months, to address any issues that may arise after the discovery review and giving the defense opportunity to file pretrial motions.
Lambing was charged by Butler Township police in connection with injuries that investigators say caused Bentley's death and were inflicted while Lambing was baby-sitting the boy at the motel.
