Leonard Glenn Francis asked a San Diego federal judge Wednesday to give him three more months to hire a new lawyer ahead of a sentencing hearing that's been delayed almost nine years.
Francis fled house arrest in September 2022, just weeks before he was set to be sentenced in the case. He'd been allowed to live in a rented upscale San Diego home since 2018 as part of a court-approved medical furlough.In December, he was returned to the U.S. in a prisoner swap. At a hearing in San Diego Jan. 4, his longtime attorneys told Sammartino they'd agreed with Francis to step away from the case.
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