Clayton Mibroda still has a slim chance of overturning his conviction in the death of his infant daughter in 2011. The 31-year-old Bolivar man is serving 15 to 30 years in state prison for third degree murder.
Westmoreland County Judge Christopher Feliciani has scheduled an evidentiary hearing for Mibroda, who is acting as his own attorney after having been denied new counsel at the public’s expense.
Mibroda has maintained that he was innocent of causing the death of 20-day-old Natalee Kay Mibroda, blaming the baby’s mother, Kayla Lichtenfels, while also admitting that he “dropped” the little girl. A jury found that he had inflicted massive blunt force traumatic injuries to the infant.
The baby’s grandmother, Vickie Fetterman, lives in Indiana County and had temporary custody of Natalee after her birth. The infant was born addicted to opioids due to drug abuse by both parents, and Fetterman last year was denied by a U.S. Appeals Court as she sought to sue the Westmoreland County Childrens Bureau for ordering Natalee to be returned to her parents. The court ruled that the law shields the agency from a lawsuit and that Fetterman waited too long to file it.
Mibroda has been compiling records from his trial while serving time at SCI Greene County. His new evidentiary hearing is scheduled for March 9th.
