Miami
A youngster charged with killing his stepsister on a Carnival Cruise ship filed a not-guilty plea Tuesday and waived his look at a listening to in Miami federal courtroom.
Timothy Hudson has acquired the indictment and is waiving his look at an arraignment scheduled for Wednesday, protection legal professional Eric Cohen stated in a courtroom submitting. The 16-year-old additionally signed the one-page doc.
Cohen didn’t instantly reply to an e mail searching for additional remark
Hudson is being prosecuted as an grownup within the loss of life of 18-year-old Anna Kepner, whose physique was discovered underneath a mattress in a Carnival Horizon room that she was sharing with him and one other teen throughout a household journey in November.
Hudson is charged with homicide and aggravated sexual abuse. He has been free within the care of an uncle since his arrest in February, although prosecutors now desire a decide to lock him up whereas the case unfolds. That subject is unsettled.
Kepner was a highschool cheerleader at Temple Christian School in Titusville, Florida, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Orlando. The explanation for her November 6 loss of life was decided to be mechanical asphyxia, which is when an object or pressure stops somebody from respiratory.
Records and hearings within the case had been closed to the public for weeks as a result of Hudson was initially charged as a minor. But US District Judge Beth Bloom granted the federal government’s request to have him prosecuted as an grownup. The case was unsealed on April 10.