"One of two defendants with ties to the Zizian cult appeared before a Solano County Superior Court judge on Thursday and requested to fire her defense attorney. The request comes five weeks before the start of a jury trial for Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, 30, and co-defendant Suri Dao, 24, who are charged in connection with the 2022 attempted murder of a Vallejo landlord and face felony murder charges because one of their alleged accomplices died during the attack."
"A so-called Marsden motion by Leatham, a transgender woman, surfaced during a trial confirmation hearing in Department 22 in the Hall of Justice in Fairfield, where Judge John B. Ellis heard the defendant shackled while seated in a chair, strands of her brown hair reaching her shoulders read from a handwritten note expressing a desire to release Alternate Public Defender Carol Long and retain a new lawyer."
"Dao, a state prison inmate recently transferred from the California Institution for Women in Chino to Solano County Jail, was making her second in-person Fairfield court appearance. Standing 5 feet, 4 inches, clad in striped jail jumpsuit, her long black hair tumbling to her midback, she made her first in-person Solano County Superior Court appearance on Wednesday for a motion to suppress evidence."
Two defendants with ties to the Zizian cult face trial for a 2022 attempted murder of a Vallejo landlord and felony murder charges after an alleged accomplice died. Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, 30, and co-defendant Suri Dao, 24, are due for jury trial in five weeks. Leatham filed a Marsden motion requesting replacement of her Alternate Public Defender and appeared shackled while reading a handwritten note seeking a new lawyer. Judge John B. Ellis scheduled hearings on the Marsden motion, in limine motions, and a motion to continue. Dao, recently transferred from a state prison, made in-person appearances for a suppression motion.
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