Lyndon Wiggins has stood trial twice for his role in the murder of Minneapolis real estate agent Monique Baugh, and both times a jury found him guilty on all charges. However, that conviction could be wiped away yet again if a motion for a new trial succeeds.
Wiggins’ defense attorney, Sarah Gad, filed the motion Thursday afternoon, less than an hour before her client was to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole.
Gad already succeeded once in petitioning the Minnesota Supreme Court to vacate her client’s first-degree murder conviction in 2024 on grounds that the judge overseeing the case misstated the law when providing jury instructions. The case was returned to district court…