(Miami, FL) – After prosecution and defense attorneys objected to a February 2027 trial date, an adoptive father is set to stand trial in the spring. <\/p>\n
Miami-Dade Judge Andrea Wolfson setting March 15th, 2027, as the date 58-year-old Jorge Barahona to stand trial on capital murder and attempted murder charges.<\/p>\n
He is accused of killing of his adoptive daughter, Nubia, and dousing her twin brother, Victor, in pool chemicals in 2011. Defense attorney Stephan Lopez says he believes the capital murder case has been overcharged and is filing a motion for a hearing to take the death penalty off the table.<\/p>\n
“Based on the discovery, I don’t know how the state is going to prove the necessary aggravators. That’s something I’m focusing on, and it could change the dynamics of the case moving forward,” Lopez explained to the judge. <\/p>\n
The Barahona case has languished in the courts for 15 years and has cost the state over two point six million dollars and counting. His ex-wife Carmen pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder and has turned state’s witness. Surviving victim, Victor Barahona, is also set to testify in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Miami, FL) – After prosecution and defense attorneys objected to a February 2027 trial date, an adoptive father…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[110688,159070,17866,159069,123,125,124,159071],"class_list":["post-399679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-andrea-wolfson","tag-capital-murder-case","tag-defense-attorneys","tag-jorge-barahona","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-stephan-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399679","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=399679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}