NEW ORLEANS (KCTV) – The trial in a racketeering case tied to the death of a Kansas City sports reporter’s Super Bowl week death in 2025 has been delayed.
According to KCTV’s sister station Fox8, a Jefferson Parish choose granted a continuance, pushing the case again for Danette Colbert and her co-defendants, Christian Anderson and Ricky White.
Colbert faces racketeering and manslaughter expenses for the death of Telemundo Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano. His death occurred simply days earlier than Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans in February 2025.
Police discovered his physique in his lodge room on Feb. 5, 2025. During their investigation, surveillance footage launched by authorities confirmed Manzano and Colbert getting into his lodge collectively. Later, photos confirmed Colbert leaving alone.
At a courtroom listening to final yr, a detective testified textual content messages between Colbert and White tied the 2 to Manzano’s murder. According to the testimony White and Colbert typically texted about “knockouts” or “KOs,” referring to medication used to make victims cross out earlier than allegedly robbing them.
According to FOX8, the continuance request for Colbert, Anderson and White got here over the last motions listening to earlier than a trial was set to start on July 6.
“What the court and everybody really needs to understand is that we’ve got a racketeering indictment that spans over a decade of information,” an lawyer stated in courtroom. “It’s a massive amount of information to sift through.”
Another lawyer stated a drive incorporates “around 14,000 documents” that they’d not but had the chance to absolutely assessment.
“The judge has set deadlines, and we intend to adhere to those deadlines,” the lawyer stated.
The trio are actually set for one more motions listening to on July 22.
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