Rochester man appears in court on 1st-degree murder charge
(ABC 6 News) – Mustafa Bush’s second Zoom hearing on 1st-degree murder charges went off without a hitch.
On Friday, Feb. 9, Olmsted County attorney Mark Ostrem, defense attorney Graham Henry, and Goodhue County judge Douglas C. Bayley determined that Bush’s fall 2024 pretrial and trial court dates would likely not have to move back, although Henry is still awaiting a copy of the 11-person testimony provided to the grand jury that indicted Bush on 1st-degree murder charges.
Bush is scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing Sept. 20, followed by jury selection beginning Oct. 21.
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(ABC 6 News) – Mustafa Bush, the Rochester man accused of the murder of Kimberly Robinson, did not appear in a Zoom hearing Tuesday, Jan. 30.
Bush was scheduled to be arraigned on new charges of 1st-degree murder—premeditated and 1st-degree murder—while committing domestic abuse with past pattern of domestic abuse.
As Bush is currently held at Oak Park Heights, a maximum-security DOC facility, his attendance at Zoom hearings requires the work of jail staff.
Goodhue County judge Douglas C. Bayley rescheduled Bush’s arraignment for Friday, Feb. 9.
In the meantime, defense attorney Graham Henry received permission to review the 11-person testimony provided to the grand jury that indicted Bush on 1st-degree murder charges.
Henry suggested that the court system alot an extra week in October to Bush’s trial—bringing the estimated length to three weeks.
Bush is scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing Sept. 20, followed by jury selection beginning Oct. 21.