Change-of-plea hearing set in Utah pesticide case

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JENNIFER DOBNER, Associated Press
Published 08:45 a.m., Tuesday, October 11, 2011
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a change-of-plea hearing is set for a pest extermination company and one of its former employees suspected in the misapplication of a pesticide that may have contributed to the deaths of two young Utah girls.

Bugman Pest and Lawn Inc., and Coleman Nocks are set to appear Tuesday in Salt Lake City's U.S. District Court. Nocks and the company's president, Ray Wilson, each pleaded not guilty to three counts of unlawful use of a registered pesticide earlier this year.

Prosecutors would not discuss the terms of the proposed plea agreements ahead of the hearing.

Dennis James, an attorney representing the company, said Monday he could not discuss the details of any agreement. Nock's federal public defender, Robert Steele, did not return a message.


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