Attorneys for murder-for-hire suspect say case details still remain elusive

By Mon Valley Independent

By Rich Cholodofsky

Trib Total Media

Prosecutors in Westmoreland County must turn over evidence to defense attorneys for a Philadelphia man charged with orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot. Common Pleas Judge Tim Krieger made the ruling Thursday in the case that resulted in the shooting death of Boyke Budiarachman, also of Philadelphia, in the parking lot of a Rostraver Township strip mall.

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