WINONA, Minn. – As expected, Adam Fravel formally requested a venue change for his murder trial for the 2023 slaying of his ex-girlfriend Maddi Kingsbury. The request was in a nine-page brief in which Fravel’s attorney repeated earlier motions. The brief was in response to Judge Nancy Buytendorp’s request that various earlier defense motions be put into writing in a consolidated brief. The brief missed Buytendorp’s original May 17 deadline. The delay suggests the date for Fravel’s trial date may be pushed deeper into the the court’s fall schedule than original scheduled.
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