In Westmoreland County Court yesterday, Brandon Green testified that Clayton Mibroda did not cause the injuries that killed his 20-day-old daughter in 2011, but that the baby’s mother, Kayla Lichtenfels, confessed to him that she was responsible for it. Lichtenfels took the stand and testified that while she and Green did have a sexual relationship, she never told him she had harmed her daughter.
Mibroda is appealing his 2013 third degree murder conviction and the sentence in the death of Natalee Mibroda at their Bolivar home. He has claimed all along that Lichtenfels was the real killer, but prosecutors contend that it was him.
Green sent Mibroda a letter last year saying he had evidence that exonerated him. Last summer, Judge Christopher Feliciani appointed attorney Tim Andrews to investigate Green’s claims, and later appointed Andrews as Mibroda’s attorney.
Green testified yesterday that Lichtenfels told him Mibroda “took the rap for her” because he knew she could not handle sitting in jail. Lichtenfels denied that. Green also said he was interviewed about his claim in his Indiana County Jail cell in 2012 but his information was not used at trial. There is no evidence of that in any court or jail records, and Mibroda’s former attorney denied it.
In the end, Judge Feliciani gave attorney Andrews thirty days to find corroborating information on Green’s claims before he rules on Mibroda’s petition for relief. Mibroda is serving fifteen to thirty years in SCI Greene County.
