HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A hearing to determine if the defense statements made by Brandon Cousins should be suppressed was continued again Monday at the request of the defense. The trial in the case scheduled to begin next week was also continued.
Cousins is charged with five off-grid felonies that could see him get life sentences on each count with no chance of parole for 25-years.
The defense want the alleged confession made by the defendant during an interview by law enforcement suppressed, saying the statements were not given voluntarily.
Cousins is charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and now three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. The alleged crimes involving a then 6-year-old girl and allegedly occurred between January 7 and July 23, of 2012. The investigation led to Cousins arrest back on December 15, 2012.
The trial for Cousins is being continued because his attorney Sam Kepfield will be in trial with another client, John Cantu. He is one of six men accused of being involved with the stabbing of a Hutchinson man at his own home. That trial is scheduled for next week in front of Judge Tim Chambers.
No new dates have been set for either the motion hearing or the trial itself, according to District Judge Trish Rose.