{"id":330613,"date":"2026-07-06T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330613\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:52:08","slug":"man-accused-of-killing-2-women-in-fort-myers-set-to-make-court-appearance-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330613\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing 2 women in Fort Myers set to make court appearance | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?l=25&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;f=html&amp;t=article%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube%2Ccollection&amp;app=editorial&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Rolbert+Joachin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rolbert Joachin<\/a>, the Haitian man accused of two murders in Fort Myers, will go before a judge on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The State Attorney&#8217;s Office filed second-degree murder charges last week in\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/man-accused-of-killing-woman-with-mallet-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-of-fort-myers\/article_74781fb7-8ce4-4662-badc-2c49e6929b04.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">death<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/man-accused-of-killing-woman-with-mallet-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-of-fort-myers\/article_74781fb7-8ce4-4662-badc-2c49e6929b04.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0of 28-year-old Julia Curvo<\/a>. Monday afternoon&#8217;s hearing is a continuation of last Thursday&#8217;s pretrial detention hearing.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Julia Curvo\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Public Defender&#8217;s Office filed a certification of conflict in the case, saying it cannot ethically represent Joachin. The office asked the court to appoint regional counsel instead.<\/p>\n<p>Regional counsel also cited a conflict of interest. The judge had to call several attorneys before\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/new-attorney-appointed-for-man-accused-of-killing-2-women-in-fort-myers\/article_272791c9-0ffb-469e-95ab-8d61b6527688.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">finding someone who could represent Joachin<\/a>\u00a0in both of his cases.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fort Myers murder victim Nilufa Easman remembered by community\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Joachin also has a capital case brought by the state for\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/fort-myers-mallet-attack-suspect-caught-after-manhunt-set-for-deportation\/article_ce20753b-4a14-4dba-b54a-ac558f238c3a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">murder<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/fort-myers-mallet-attack-suspect-caught-after-manhunt-set-for-deportation\/article_ce20753b-4a14-4dba-b54a-ac558f238c3a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0of Nilufa Easmin<\/a>. Defense attorney Lee Hollander will now represent Joachin in both cases.<\/p>\n<p>The continuation of the hearing begins at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Rolbert Joachin, the Haitian man accused of two murders in Fort Myers, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,265,325,115],"class_list":["post-330613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-crime","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}