Judge grants Pablo Lyle more time to prepare defense in murder trial

Judge gave Pablo Lyle more time to prepare his defense in the murder trial

They accuse the actor of having fatally beaten an elderly adult after a vehicle dispute

On May 27 there will be a hearing to verify the status of the case and confirm if the parties are ready.

A Miami judge on Thursday

granted Mexican actor Pablo Lyle more time to prepare his defense in the trial he will face under accusations of homicide for having beaten fatally to an older adult after a vehicular dispute, according to the AP agency and the news portal of Millennium.

Judge Marlene Fernández-Karavetsos granted the request of Lyle’s lawyer, Bruce Lehr, and postponed the start of the trial from March 15 to June 7, tentatively.

On May 27 there will be a hearing for check the status of the case and confirm if the parties are ready.

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This is not the first time the trial date has been changed. Initially it had been scheduled for February, but also at a request from Lyle, the justice agreed to postpone it.

This time the postponement took place in a brief court hearing of less than five minutes conducted by Zoom, which also included Lyle’s other attorney, Philip Reizenstein, and prosecutor Eileen Keeley.

Lyle, who lives at his sister’s home in Miami, claims he is innocent. The actor of the Mexican soap opera “My adorable curse” and the Netflix series “Yankee” wears a GPS monitor on his ankle that allows authorities to know his movements 24 hours a day.

At the beginning of the hearing, Lehr told the magistrate that he needed more time for the trial.

«We are still preparing,» Lyle’s attorney said, asking for 45 to 60 more days.

After reviewing her calendar, the Florida State 11th Circuit judge proposed May and June dates, and asked the defense if there were enough days to prepare. «Could be,» Lehr replied.

Pablo Lyle murder trial

Lyle’s legal process has been going on for almost two years, since April 2019, and the actor is not authorized to work in the United States.

The confrontation occurred at the end of March 2019, when Lyle’s brother-in-law was taking the actor, his wife and two children to the Miami airport and they came across the car of Juan Ricardo Hernández, a 63-year-old Cuban.

According to security video footage, Hernández got out of his car at a red light and approached the window of Lyle’s vehicle to claim that his path had been blocked. The actor’s brother-in-law got out of the car and argued with Hernández, but when he saw his vehicle move, he returned.

Then Lyle, who was in the passenger seat, got out of the vehicle, ran to Hernandez and punched him in the face, according to those images.

The Cuban man was left lying on the floor, alone, while Lyle and his family’s vehicle drove away. A few hours later the actor was arrested at the Miami airport while he was preparing to travel to Mexico.

Hernández died in a hospital of a brain injury caused by the trauma, four days after the confrontation.

Lyle has stated that he acted in self-defense because he feared that the Cuban would attack him with a weapon, but those arguments were dismissed by a previous judge and by a higher court, which returned the case to the Miami court for trial.

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Pablo Lyle murder trial

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