PORTLAND (AP) — Lawyers for a man charged with killing his girlfriend and leaving her body in a snowcovered SUV in a hotel parking lot say their client should be released on bail because evidence in the case points to other suspects.
Anthony Pratt Jr., 19, is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to fatally shooting Marguerita Fisenko Scott last year. Her body was not discovered until January.
The Portland Press Herald reports that Pratt’s lawyer argued at a hearing on Wednesday there is ample evidence pointing at others as more likely suspects than his client.
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