Robert Torian, the man accused in the August shooting death of Terrill Moore, has a new public defender following a pretrial conference in Christian Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon.
Torian was being represented by the local branch of the Department of Public Advocacy, but Director Doug Moore informed the court that his office must be recused due to conflict of interest, so Chris Woodall from a different office will step in.
The next pretrial conference was set for February 5. The original arrest warrant for murder from Hopkinsville police says Torian and Moore had been in an argument while both were passengers in a vehicle. Torian was in the back seat when he allegedly exited, opened the front passenger door and shot Moore in the head.