The retrial of convicted murderer Ronald Weiss is back on the “active” list and Indiana County President Judge Thomas Bianco has scheduled a status conference for May 17th. The action comes after the State Supreme Court this month denied Weiss’s appeal seeking to prevent a new trial from happening.
In 1997, Weiss was found guilty of the murder of 16-year-old Barbara Bruzda of Tunnelton in October of 1978, but the conviction was overturned by a federal judge in 2018, based on a ruling of prosecutorial misconduct by the state attorney general’s office. Weiss was immediately re-arrested and charged again with the murder. He’s been fighting to avoid retrial ever since.
State Superior Court’s certificate of remittal and remand of record arrived back in Indiana County Court last week.
