The pretrial convention scheduled for July 10 for ex-broker Anthony Duwayne Turner, charged with the 2021 homicide of his former colleague and ex-girlfriend, Financial institution of America-Merrill government Michelle Avan, has been continued to Aug. 21, in accordance with Venusse D. Navid, a spokesperson for Los Angeles County District Lawyer George Gascón.

The pretrial convention can be held in Dept. G on the Van Nuys West Courthouse of Los Angeles Superior Courtroom in Van Nuys, California, Navid informed ThinkAdvisor by electronic mail.

Though the courtroom’s web site normally notes when the following listening to in every case is scheduled, it nonetheless mentioned Wednesday there have been no upcoming scheduled occasions associated to this case.

A so-called Pitchess movement was granted to Turner final 12 months in order that he and his lawyer might examine a police officer’s personnel file for any proof of misconduct.

Protection attorneys usually make a Pitchess movement throughout the pretrial course of, after they suspect that police might have acted improperly by, for instance, submitting an inaccurate police report. When granted, a choose sometimes releases any info they imagine is related concerning the police officer in query to the defendant.

Avan’s Loss of life

Avan was a managing director at Merrill Lynch for 22 years earlier than being promoted in June 2021 to go of BofA’s world girls’s and under-represented expertise technique, in accordance with her LinkedIn profile.

Turner, of Westchester, California, was arrested Aug. 5, 2021, and launched a couple of days later after posting $2 million bail, the Los Angeles Police Division and a spokesperson for Gascón informed ThinkAdvisor on the time.

Turner was charged with felony homicide and first-degree residential housebreaking in his former girlfriend’s loss of life, in accordance with a spokesman for Gascón.