WASHINGTON — A man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy is expected to get a new trial after government attorneys on Friday said the “interests of justice” would best be served by one.
On Friday, after more than a year of legal wrangling, government attorneys withdrew opposition to a new trial for Ingmar Guandique and told a judge they were preparing to re-try him.
Guandique’s attorneys had asked a judge to grant him a new trial because they said a key witness, Guandique’s one-time cellmate, gave false or misleading testimony during his 2010 trial. Guandique’s attorneys said prosecutors knew or should have known the testimony was problematic.
“The government continues to believe the jury’s verdict was correct,” prosecutors wrote Friday.
Levy’s 2001 disappearance created a sensation after the Modesto, Calif., native was romantically linked with then-Rep. Gary Condit, a California Democrat. Her remains were found in Washington’s Rock Creek Park in 2002.
