FLORIDA KILLER RETURNED TO L.A. FOR TRIAL IN VAN NUYS SLAYING.Byline: Yvette Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer Convicted killer Glen Rogers made his first appearance in a Los Angeles court Monday after being extradited from Florida to face trial for the grisly murder of a mother of three found dead in a Van Nuys neighborhood. Rogers appeared briefly at the Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , where his arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted was delayed until Nov. 12 while a public defender is assigned to his case, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office. Rogers arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday via Con Air, the federal marshals' airlines service that flies prisoners around the country, according to homicide detective Stephen Fisk Fisk , James 1834-1872. American railroad financier and speculator who attempted in 1869 to corner the gold market with Jay Gould, leading to Black Friday, a day of nationwide financial panic. of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . .
After Rogers arrived at the Roybal Federal Building, LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. detectives from Van Nuys escorted him to the Twin Towers jail, where he was booked and will be kept during pretrial pre·tri·al n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts. adj. 1. Of or relating to a pretrial. 2. hearings and his trial, Fisk said. The extradition, which had been delayed for more than a year by appeals, went off without a hitch, Fisk said. Rogers is accused of raping, strangling and setting fire to 31-year-old Sandra Gallagher in 1995. Prosecutors say Rogers offered Gallagher a ride to her home in Santa Monica from a Van Nuys cocktail lounge, then killed her before fleeing on a cross-country murder spree. Rogers was convicted in 1997 of fatally stabbing a woman in Florida, where he has been on Death Row. While his appeals continue in that conviction, he will be tried in the Gallagher case in Los Angeles. |
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