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PORTALES — The trial for two men charged with killing a Muleshoe woman is scheduled for August.
Keith Cordova, 22, and Francisco Bustamante, 24, both are charged with murder in connection with the slaying of Jaime Edgmon in rural Roosevelt County.
Records show Edgmon, 41, was killed about sunrise Oct. 13, approximately six hours after she may have witnessed a shooting in the vicinity of 10th and Pile streets in Clovis.
Cordova and Bustamante will be tried together, with an Aug. 2 docket call and a trial setting of Aug. 16-27.
Both are at the Curry County Adult Detention Center without bond on preventative detention.
Both Cordova, through attorney Marie Legrand Miller, and Bustamante, through attorney Judi Caruso, waived a formal reading of their charges and entered pleas of not guilty in a Monday hearing held virtually.
Deputy District Attorney Quentin Ray said the trial might only require five days, but that it made sense to keep the two-week setting in place. District Judge Donna Mowrer concurred, noting issues are more likely in cases with multiple defendants.
Caruso requested Bustamante be transferred to the Roosevelt County Detention Center because that’s where the charges originate. Ray said he wasn’t sure why Bustamante was being held in Curry County after Caruso’s request, but that he would find out.
Mowrer said ordering the transfer was outside of her judicial duties, but that the attorneys could work that out.
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