Tijuana Strip Clubs: Marine ordered to stand trial in wife’s killing
Marine ordered to stand trial in wife’s killing
Posted: 04/28/2010 05:58:41 PM PDT
Updated: 04/28/2010 06:00:53 PM PDT
SAN DIEGO—A Marine has been ordered to stand trial in the killing of his 19-year-old bride of two months.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Kenneth So ruled Wednesday that prosecutors presented enough evidence during a preliminary hearing for Lance Cpl. Patrick Poteat’s case to go to trial.
Prosecutors say Poteat strangled Kalyn O’Barr Poteat on Jan. 5 and left a note confessing to the killing in the couple’s Mira Mesa apartment.
During the preliminary hearing, police Detective Mike Holden testified that Poteat told him he wasn’t jealous of his wife, but didn’t like what she did for a living. OBarr Poteat worked as an exotic dancer at Goldfinger’s Gentleman’s Club under the stage name “Darla.”