A lawyer for a Vermont woman who, along with her husband, is charged with abducting and killing a St. Johnsbury teacher is withdrawing from her case.
Robert Sussman of Burlington was assigned last week to be Patricia Prue's defense lawyer after her former attorney told the court he had a conflict because one of his former clients had been added to the prosecutor's list of possible witnesses.
The Caledonian Record reports that after reviewing the case files, Sussman also discovered that he had a conflict because he had an attorney-client relationship with a person on the state's witness list.
Prue and her husband, Allen Prue, have pleaded not guilty to luring Melissa Jenkins from her Danville home in March 2012, killing her and then dumping her body in the Connecticut River.
