EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM ) — The hearing scheduled for Oct. 31 on the Walmart mass shooting case will move forward after District Court Judge Sam Medrano denied the prosecution’s request to delay it by at least a month at a hearing held Thursday afternoon, Oct. 24.
Last week, the El Paso District Attorney’s Office filed two motions seeking that Judge Medrano postpone the Oct. 31 hearing and that he unseals any motions made in ex parte, meaning that they were made without their knowledge.
Prosecutors seeking to delay to next scheduled Walmart hearing
Judge Medrano did concede to unsealing four court orders that will be made public at some point on Thursday.
District Attorney Bill Hicks addressed the media after the hearing.
“(The Court) kind of partially granted our request. So we’ll have to see what those orders say. Again, the very nature of those orders mean that we don’t know what the contents of those orders are. So we’ll have to review what those orders say and then review our options and move forward and continue to prepare for the 31st,” Hicks said.