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Sam Penrod reporting The man charged yesterday with murder in the disappearance of Kiplyn Davis was in court today.
The perjury trial Timmy Brent Olsen in federal court was set today.
Timmy Olsen faces now both state and federal charges, but it all centers around his alleged involvement in the disappearance of Kiplyn Davis in 1995.
But before he is tried on the murder charge yesterday, he faces twenty counts of perjury in federal court.
Today, the federal judge handling that case set Timmy Olsen's perjury trial for May 1st. That will be just one day shy of the eleventh anniversary of Kiplyn's disappearance.
The trial is scheduled to last three weeks, may include up to seventy witnesses and what was called today a "mountain of evidence."
Once this trial is over, regardless of the verdict, Olsen will then be turned over to Utah County authorities, who announced yesterday they have charged Olsen with murder.
But federal prosecutors say in the perjury case, they are not trying to prove that Olsen was involved in Kiplyn's death.
Richard Lambert, Assistant US Attorney: "There are 26 counts. They cover various issues, including his denial that he made certain statements regarding Kiplyn's disappearance and his involvement in it, seeking an alibi, doing things like that. We just have a lot of witnesses."
Olsen's attorney says that his client maintains his innocence and called both the federal perjury case and the state's murder charges as circumstantial evidence.
