By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET
for Glasgow News 1
The public portion of a pretrial conference for the cases in which a mother and daughter are charged with murder was brief in Barren Circuit Court on Friday.
Donna Cheryl Logsdon, now 73, and Cheryl Leighanne Bennett, now 48, are accused of killing Michael “Mickey” O. Logsdon in July 2022. Bennett was arrested that following November, and Logsdon was arrested the following January after a grand jury chose to return indictments against both women. They are accused of causing the death of their husband and father, respectively, by tampering with the machine that enabled Mickey Logsdon’s breathing.
Immediately prior to the scheduled start time for the proceeding, defense attorneys and the special prosecutor assigned to the case, Blake Chambers, left the courtroom to speak with the judge.
Several minutes later, the attorneys returned and Circuit Judge John T. Alexander entered shortly thereafter, stating that they had met in his chambers and it was his understanding that they would not be addressing anything “substantive,” and the prosecutor confirmed that.
Alexander went on to say that there were still some motions pending but that the parties were working on resolving that among themselves, which was “fine – and preferable.”
From there, he commenced a discussion regarding when they could schedule another pretrial conference. Bennett’s attorney, John Olash, said he believed they should come back in February, and 9 a.m. Feb. 14 was chosen after further conferring.
The judge asked the attorneys to let him know beforehand if they expected to be addressing any new issues that day that haven’t already been raised through motions or otherwise.
Following the pretrial conference, testimony was going to be taken from an unnamed potential trial witness, but that proceeding was not open to the public. It had been scheduled previously, but the person was ill, so Chambers had suggested having it on this date.
The trial is scheduled to begin July 9.
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