From Peter Hecht:
Tylar Marie Witt, the 14-year-old El Dorado Hills girl accused with her boyfriend of killing her mother, will face a Nov. 17 hearing to determine whether she can stand trial as adult.
Shackled at the waist and ankles and dressed in a juvenile hall-issue purple sweat shirt, baggy pants and white sneakers, Witt listened quietly in a Placerville court room as Judge James R. Waggoner set the November hearing and a Sept. 21 conference for lawyers in the case.
Witt and Steven Paul Colver, also of El Dorado Hills, were arrested June 17 outside a San Bruno cell phone store after days on the run. They are being held for the killing of Joanne Witt, 47, who was stabbed to death between June 11 and June 12 in the upscale home where she had lived with her daughter and gave Colver a place to stay.
El Dorado County Deputy District Attorney Lisette Suder said authorities are attempting to establish that the "gravity" of the crime and the "degree of criminal sophistication" require that Witt face trial as an adult.
Authorities allege that Colver, 19, killed Witt with a knife after she filed a report with the sheriff's office, alleging he had committed statutory rape in encounters with her daughter. Deputies had earlier responded to a service call at the house May 18 for a report of a 14-year-old girl assaulting her mother but couldn't confirm the girl was Tylar because the case was handled in juvenile court.
A hearing for Colver is scheduled for this afternoon.
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