LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — A status hearing set for Friday for former Kentucky student Laken Snelling has been delayed until August following an agreed filing by both parties.
A docket pass dated June 8 indicates that the status hearing has been pushed back to Aug. 21. Both parties agreed to delay the hearing “due to evidentiary issues.”
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Snelling, 22, was indicted in March on charges of first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant. She pleaded not guilty.
Snelling withdrew from UK in September 2025 before she was ordered to house arrest at her family’s Tennessee home.
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On May 14, she appeared in Fayette County Circuit Court for a pretrial conference, where officials said the prosecuting attorneys presented the evidence to the defense…