Indiana County President Judge Thomas Bianco will hold a status conference tomorrow for Ronald Weiss, the man awaiting a retrial for the 1978 murder of 16-year-old Barbara Bruzda of Tunnelton.
Weiss was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in 1997 but a federal judge overturned the conviction in 2018 based on prosecutorial misconduct by the state attorney general’s office and ordered him released. He was immediately re-arrested on the same charges and Bianco subsequently ruled that the prosecutorial misconduct and Weiss’s guilt or innocence are two separate issues, clearing the way for a retrial. The State Supreme Court has upheld his ruling.
The retrial has been postponed numerous times, most recently last month.
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