RILEY CHOATE, WIFE PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN TORTURE SLAY

NOT GUILTY? Well, after we stopped laughing that Riley Choate and wife Kimberly were serious when they entered pleas of not guilty in the vicious torture murder of their son Christian Choate, 13, we had to step back and shake our head at the system. But we digress... the couple had made separate court appearances last week and pleaded not guilty in the preliminaries.
Now, Kimberly Choate, 45, has been appointed appointed with a public defender, Linda Kollintzas while Riley Choate, 39, appeared with his private attorney, Randy Godshalk. But there is a ways to go before they can been convicted and the keys tossed away.

Positive identification of Christian's battered body remains pending. The boy was buried in a shallow grave in a mobile home park in Gary, Indiana for two years before authorities were alerted. Lake Criminal Court Judge Diane Boswell ordered the body be held by the Lake County coroner's office pending a hearing June 14.
The couple is next expected in court May 24 for a hearing on a state's request for handwriting samples.
The gruesome twosome have been hit with a total of 13 charges, including: murder, battery, four counts neglect of a dependent, criminal confinement, three counts obstruction of justice, and altering the scene of a death, and failure to report a dead body.

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