ORLANDO, Fla. — A judge on Thursday morning delayed the case against three teenage boys charged in connection with the beating death of a teenage boy last year.
It's unknown why the case was delayed because much of Thursday's hearing was conducted in private through a bench conference between the judge, the boys' attorneys and a representative of the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Roger Trindade, 15, was found beaten and unconscious Oct. 15 in downtown Winter Park's Central Park. He died days later after being removed from life support.
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Police said hands, fists and feet were used as weapons against Trindade. An autopsy revealed that the boy died from blunt-force trauma.
Investigators arrested Jesse Sutherland, Simeon Hall and Jagger Gouda weeks after the beating. They were placed on house arrest shortly after their arrests.
Sutherland and Hall, who are accused of punching Trindade in the head, are charged with manslaughter. Gouda has pleaded no contest to witness tampering and battery charges, court records said.
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The victim and the suspects were students at Winter Park High School, police said.
None of the boys were in court Thursday because the judge excused them from having to appear.
Sutherland and Hall are next scheduled to appear in court on June 2 to decide whether to accept a plea offer or to take their chances at trial. Gouda is expected to be sentenced that day.
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Trey Flynn, Gouda's lawyer, told Channel 9 on Thursday that he'll be asking the judge for leniency.
"We have to consider the fact that we have a child who has passed away because of this incident," Flynn said. "But likewise, we have a child who is still needing to go through the process of going to school and educating himself so he can prepare himself for whatever future he has."
Trindade's relatives said through a family friend that they weren't in court Thursday because they didn't expect any final decisions to be made during the hearing.