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A new re-trial date has been scheduled for Aug. 9 for Bradley Joe Morales, 30, who is charged in district court in Minot with the Class AA felony 2017 murder of his ex-girlfriend.
The trial had originally been set to take place on Jan. 25, but Judge Doug Mattson agreed to call it off and schedule the new trial date.
Mattson did, however, refuse to allow Morales’s latest lawyer to withdraw from the case.
Morales asked last month for a new lawyer. Defense attorney David Ogren had asked to withdraw and told the judge there has been “an irreparable rift and complete breakdown in the attorney client relationship.”