A pretrial hearing addressed preparations for the September murder trial in the 2012 killing of the UNC student. The hearing concerned procedure and evidence before trial; it did not determine guilt.
A pretrial hearing was held in the Faith Hedgepeth murder case. Hedgepeth was killed in Chapel Hill in 2012. The defendant faces a murder charge.
The trial was scheduled for September. The hearing addressed trial preparation and evidentiary issues. No verdict was reached at the hearing.
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