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New trial ordered in townsville murder case
KIRO 7 has learned that more than 10 weeks after he was killed, Steven Michael Pfeifer was released from detention and is facing no charges.
Court records show his trial, scheduled for March 18, was postponed last week because of his mental health problems and a delay from his initial request that a lawyer act as his attorney.
Last year, Pfeifer was sentenced in the killing of Robert Loomis, who lived with a woman in the 800 block of North Main Street.
Prosecutors say Pfeifer murdered the man while Pfeifer had sex with Loomis as she lay in bed.
The 28-year-old man was found unresponsive with blunt force injuries around 4:25 a.m. Oct. 5. He died hours later after being taken to a Seattle hospital.
A review of court records in the case revealed numerous delays as well.
Pfeifer was never notified of his Miranda rights or an attorney for the first two weeks of his detention.
After the release of his attorney in December, Pfeifer was asked to write an eight-page statement but instead found out from an unknown source via text message the following day that the statement is invalid.
"I just got your text messages right now and they're very strange. I cannot give you everything I have, but basically what you're saying, please don't do anything wrong with me in court because if I do, I'm dead," he wrote.
But Pfeifer also added, "They want to keep me in court but I don't believe in that, so I'm not really interested."
Pfeifer's lawyer then sent him a list of other people Pfeifer could represent in court without having to meet with him directly.
"These other people have filed in the case but this person doesn't have to be present for their argument because your case is going to the court because I'm helping him with a mental health matter. The court doesn't have to decide it to keep you there because you're not going to meet with the defendant until your defense attorney says you should be there," the lawyer wrote.
Instead, Pfeifer was allowed to attend several public defender services in town.
"He was in a lot of trouble because he did drugs and he ended up doing the killing and he couldn't live with himself anymore," Pfeifer's attorney told News Channel 7's Steve Brown.
Pfeifer also said he does not mind living with a woman with problems and that while he's not opposed to her giving birth, he's not interested in having sex with her as long as it doesn't cause harm.
Pfeifer was release
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Nsw govt prepared for teacher demand
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott is preparing for a teacher shortage by appointing an independent board member to run the board of a national education body.
The State Government is also preparing to put $10 million towards creating 50 full-time school teachers.
Education Minister Christopher Pyne said it was a sensible step to tackle a shortage of teachers with an independent body.
He said it was one of the "key reforms" for the Federal Government's education policy this year.
"I think it's right to bring in an independent trustee," Mr Pyne said.
"It's good for all involved because the system needs to adapt, particularly when children are at school, it needs to adapt to what they're up to in class, and it needs to adapt to the new technology, it needs to adapt and I think I've done a very good job of helping that happen."
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