The man charged with killing Faith Hedgepeth is set to return to court Tuesday as his defense team tries to block the prosecution’s request to seal motions and orders in the months leading up to a scheduled fall trial.
The judge’s ruling on the request will determine how much of the remaining legal battles unfold in public before jurors consider the evidence in the trial accusing Miguel Salguero Olivares of raping and murdering Hedgepeth, 19, at the start of her sophomore year at UNC in September 2012.
The dispute is one of many that Judge Keith Gregory will have to decide as prosecutors and defense attorneys begin to argue over what evidence jurors will hear and how the case will proceed as it moves toward a Sept. 28 trial date.
On Tuesday afternoon, Gregory is scheduled to hear District Attorney Satana Deberry’s motion to seal all pretrial motions and orders, which prosecutors argue is necessary to prevent the jury from being influenced by intense local and national coverage of the case…