GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—An attorney for a woman accused of killing her newborn and hiding the body in her family’s Grand Junction home says lawyers are working on a plea agreement.
John Burkey, representing 22-year-old Morgan Hite of Wasilla, Alaska, told a Mesa County judge Monday that a plea deal may be in the works.
Hite faces a charge of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors say she secretly gave birth while visiting her father and stepmother in Grand Junction in February. Authorities allege she wrapped the infant in a garbage bag, put him in a plastic tote and left him in a closet at her parents’ home. The body was found on April 29.
A hearing scheduled Monday was postponed after Burkey asked for more time to give prosecutors new information in the case.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel,
