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Lompoc resident Ashlee Buzzard appeared in court again on Wednesday. The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office has charged Buzzard with the murder of her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee.
On Wednesday, Judge Stephen Dunkle extended the gag order prohibiting law enforcement from speaking about the case to the public for the duration of the trial. Buzzard’s defense requested the gag order on December 24, the day after the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office held a press conference on Buzzard’s arrest. At that press conference, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said that Buzzard had committed a “heinous crime” and had done so calculatingly and in cold blood…