Dohring and Quintanilla trial for stabbing incident adjourned to December
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HARRISVILLE -- Joshua Dohring, 40, and Cassandra Quintanilla, 36, had status conference hearings on Tuesday in the 23rd Circuit Court in Alcona County and it appears the two cases are going to go to trial. In Decmber.
Dohring is charged with assault with intent to murder, and Quintanilla is charged with accessory after the fact to a felony and two counts of lying to a peace officer – violent crime investigation. They are co-defendants for an alleged stabbing that occurred on May 14 in Mikado.
The stabbing occurred when Rodney Swalley and Stacy Matthews pulled up to the Mikado baseball fields on the evening of May 14.
The two encountered Dohring and his ex-wife there. Dohring and Swalley got into a physical altercation. During that altercation, Dohring stabbed Swalley in the neck with a knife. The quick action of Alcona EMS, an Alcona County deputy, and Mikado first responders tending to the Swalley's injuries helped sustain his life.
Dohring left the scene and was later seen through video footage at Greenbush Market with Quintanilla pumping gas. Dohring could be heard saying that he killed someone in that footage.
Later when Quintanilla and Dohring were back at their residence, Alcona County deputy Andrew Wright arrived there and asked Quintanilla if she knew about the incident. She denied knowing anything.
Alcona County Prosecuting Attorney Elizabeth Reed said at the preliminary examination on June 10 that there was evidence Quintanilla had lied in a number of police interviews.
Judge Laura Frawley of the 23rd Circuit Court in Alcona said at Tuesday's hearing she assumes the two cases are going to trial.
Dohring's attorney Bill Pfeifer responded that there is still discovery forthcoming.
"Where we're at right now from a discovery standpoint is that there are quite a few items that are at the Michigan State Police Crime Laboratory...there's still a fair amount of discovery that has not been completed yet."
Reed said that the lab is in the process of doing a DNA analysis on several items. She said that the first phase has been completed but the lab could not give a timeline of when the rest of the analysis will be done.
Reed said she wouldn't anticipate having that evidence for the next 60 days.
The jury trial had been set for Oct. 13 through Oct. 17, which would not be enough time to get that evidence according to Reed's estimation.
Frawley rescheduled the trial for 9 a.m. on Dec. 15 through Dec. 18.
A motion for joinder of the cases has yet to be filed, meaning the trials for Quintanilla and Dohring would be combined into one and heard by one jury. Once that motion is filed, there will be another hearing scheduled.