Westmoreland County Judge Christopher Feliciani yesterday scheduled a hearing for later this month on Clayton Mibroda’s Petition for Post-Conviction Collateral Relief. The 32-year-old Mibroda is trying to get the court to vacate his murder conviction for the killing of his infant daughter at their Bolivar home in 2011.
Twenty-day-old Natalee Mibroda was pronounced dead at the Indiana Regional Medical Center on December 27th, 2011. Her father was found guilty in 2013 of inflicting the fatal injuries, but he claims the baby’s mother, Kayla Lichtenfels, is to blame for the death.
Mibroda bases his appeal on a letter he got last February from Brandon Green, an Indiana man who is in prison for aggravated assault of his stepson in 2015. Green, who had a previous relationship with Lichtenfels, claimed in the letter that he had information that would exonerate Mibroda.
Last July, Judge Feliciani appointed attorney Tim Andrews to investigate Green’s claim, telling him to ascertain whether or not Mibroda’s former attorneys had ever interviewed Green, and what information Green had that was relevant to the case.
Mibroda is serving fifteen to thirty years at SCI Greene County. The new hearing date is June 27th.
