By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Attorneys told a judge today the trial for the Centralia woman charged with second-degree murder in the death of her husband should be pushed off into the future.
[1]Janet L. Anderson
Janet L. Anderson, 39, has been held in the Lewis County Jail since she was arrested last month. Forty-one-year-old Ty Anderson’s body was located in their bedroom wrapped in a tarp, with a bullet hole in the back of his neck and another in his lower back, prosecutors have said.
She was charged in Lewis County Superior Court on Dec. 19 and a trial date was set for the week of Feb. 13.
Centralia defense attorney Shane O’Rourke today requested and was granted the postponement, until the week of May 8.
O’Rourke said he could tell early on based on the complexities the real trial date would be further down the road. But it’s standard practice at arraignments to put it on the court schedule within the required amount of time, he said.
“I gauged this one at six to nine months in terms of total time frame,” he said today.
Janet Anderson turned herself in to police the morning of Dec. 17, said she and her husband had been arguing at their home off of West Oakview Avenue and he grabbed his gun and pointed it at her. Prosecutors have said the shooting could have occurred as long as 12 hours earlier.
She has pleaded not guilty and is being held on $1 million bail.
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For background, read “Centralia wife pleads not guilty to murder” from Friday December 23, 2016, here [2]