Assistant district attorney Ben Boyer, right, speaks to witnesses called for Michael Crumpton’s criminal homicide case that Judge Bob Moon bound over to the grand jury Wednesday.
Michael L. CrumptonFor the third time since Victoria Godwin died of a severe beating and strangulation June 7, a group of witnesses came to court.
And for the third time they did not get called to the stand.
On Wednesday, defendant Michael Crumpton waived his right to a preliminary hearing in Hamilton County General Sessions Court. His criminal homicide charge will be sent to the grand jury for possible indictment.
Wendy Stanfield, Crumpton’s court-appointed attorney, would not discuss why the pair decided not to have the hearing.
“That would go into strategy, and I can’t discuss that,” she said.