Another pretrial hearing was set Wednesday in Christian Circuit Court for Larayna Manning, the woman charged with murder in the 2020 fatal shooting of Calvin “Cue” Taylor.
Manning appeared before Judge Andrew Self alongside public defender Doug Moore, who informed the court that he will likely take over the bulk of case from attorney Jason Pfiel, and he needs more time to gather all the information and evidence in the case. He says they’re still waiting on a final DNA report, with Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling saying he hopes to receive that himself within the next month.
Circuit Judge Andrew Self set a pretrial conference for May 4, saying that hopefully will have the full report by that time.
Manning is charged with murder and first-degree robbery in connection with the fatal shooting of Taylor on North Kentucky Avenue in October of 2020. Drugs, cash and a safe were missing from Taylor’s home when police began the investigation and police say Taylor’s mouth and wrists were duct-taped, indicating there had been a robbery.
Her son and co-defendant, Anthony Manning, has already entered an Alford plea to charges of facilitation to complicity to commit murder and first-degree facilitation to complicity to commit robbery, for his role in the incident.