Guilty plea rejected; defendant will be tried for murder

He was accused in the heinous killing of a young woman three years ago and following an unusual turn of events, the Supreme Court today decided that eighteen year old Robert Gillett will stand trial for the crime. On April third Gillett pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in connection to the vicious homicide of twenty year old Mara Noemi Garcia but when he reappeared before Justice Adolph Lucas five weeks later to be sentenced, he told the judge he had nothing to do with the murder. After considering his options on how to proceed, today Justice Lucas turned down Gillett’s manslaughter plea and set June sixth as the start date for the murder trial against the defendant. Gillett’s brother, John Chessman Junior, was also accused in Garcia’s killing but that case was dismissed on a technicality. The young victim was working as a maid at a Lord’s Bank home when robbers ambushed the residence, gang raped her and severed her neck with a Samurai sword.