BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A judge in Baton Rouge says he will allow a young boy whose infant sister was beaten to death in 2013 to testify at the murder trial of their mother’s boyfriend.
District Judge Richard Anderson on Thursday denied a request by a defense attorney for Larry Leflore to exclude the boy as a trial witness. Attorney Caitlin Graham argued the boy, who was 6 when his sister was slain, would not be a reliable witness.
Leflore is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to a child in the death of 11-month-old Aaliyah Heard. Prosecutors say the infant died from blunt trauma to the head when Leflore hit and threw her after she refused to eat grits.
The Advocate reports (https://bit.ly/2nNl55g ) no trial date has been set for Leflore.
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Information from: The Advocate, https://theadvocate.com
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