With the departure of defense attorney Bill Deatherage and multiple shake-ups in the local and regional public defender’s offices, the trial of Montie Streeval — set for August 10-18 of this year — could be in peril.
Charged with the homicide and body disposal of 25-year-old Powderly native Cameron Phillips near a Trigg County cemetery in 2020, Streeval stood before Judge Jamus Redd in Trigg County Circuit Court Wednesday morning with yet another public defender in Princeton’s Duncan Varda.
It his fourth defensive representative in the last 18 months.
Streeval has been incarcerated for more than two years now with minimal headway made toward the ideas of innocence or guilt made in this prelude, and Redd urged the case needed to be tried soon.
Redd further added that Streeval “needs his day in court,” and that a bond motion is still being considered, and his trial needs to happen “this year.”
His next court appearance will be February 13.
Streeval is also charged as a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, possession of a controlled substance first degree, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia — all related to the death of Phillips.
