Joran van der Sloot has been granted an extension on pretrial deadlines, including whether or not he will plead guilty or move forward through the court process.U.S. Magistrate Judge Gray Borden on Tuesday granted the request, the second extension successfully sought by van der Sloot.
Joran van der Sloot has been granted an extension on pretrial deadlines, including whether or not he will plead guilty or move forward through the court process.second extension successfully sought by van der Sloot.
Van der Sloot on June 8 was extradited from Peru, where he is serving 28 years for the 2010 murder of college student Stephany Flores, to Alabama. The following day, he made his initial appearance in court and pleaded not guilty to the wire fraud and extortion charges. Prosecutors contend that van der Sloot told Holloway for an initial payment of $25,000, he would take the Holloway’s representative to the location of Natalee’s body. Once the body was recovered and confirmed to be Natalee, he said, he would then collect the remaining $225,000.
The affidavit also says that his late father, Paulus van der Sloot, then helped him dispose of her body.
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