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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas judge appointed a lawyer at public expense for a 28-year-old woman facing charges including murder, robbery and home-invasion in the slaying her elderly neighbor, and a prosecutor said he'll take the case to a grand jury.
Attorney David Schieck was named to represent Margarita Balandova.
Schieck declined outside court to comment about the allegations that Balandova stabbed 84-year-old Mary Luebeck to death.
Prosecutor David Stanton told a judge that Balandova and her 31-year-old husband, Timothy Coleman, have been notified that a grand jury will hear the case.
Meanwhile, Balandova is jailed without bail pending an Aug. 26 preliminary hearing.
Coleman is jailed awaiting a separate Aug. 26 preliminary hearing in an unrelated felony vandalism case.
Police say Balandova blames Coleman for Luebeck's death, and Coleman blames Balandova.
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