There has been some movement in the appeal of the murder conviction of Clayton Mibroda, the Bolivar man serving 30 years in prison for the death of his 20-day-old daughter in December of 2011.
After Westmoreland County Judge Christopher Feliciani rejected Mibroda’s petition for post-conviction relief on December 1st, his attorney, Tim Andrews, has appealed, and on Friday he filed a brief containing his opinions on why the judge erred.
The 34-year-old Mibroda has claimed all along that he did not shake little Natalee Mibroda to death, but the baby’s mother, Kayla Lichtenfels, did. Andrews based his original petition on the testimony of Brandon Green of Black Lick, who claimed that Lichtenfels confessed to him that she did it. Green was an inmate at the Indiana County Jail at the time he made his claim, and he said he had been visited at the jail in January of 2012 by two men, possibly private investigators. He said he told the men of Lichtenfels’ confession. However, jail records do not contain any references to Green receiving any visitors, which prosecutors said threw Green’s credibility into question.
While Andrews’ brief is not public, he has said in the past that the jail does not keep records of who visits inmates in the attorney/client room, and that should remove doubts about Green’s credibility.
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