Sallie Gilmer: Appeals judge’s decision to keep murder case in adult court for 2022 death of teen’s father
A Nebraska teenager charged with murdering her father is appealing a judge’s decision to prevent her trial from moving to a juvenile court, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.
Sallie Gilmer, 15 at the time, and her boyfriend, 17-year-old Isaac Honigschmidt, were arrested on Oct. 3, 2022, the same day Gilmer claimed she came home from school to find her father, 70-year-old Jessie Gilmer dead in their home, according to a Lincoln Police Department (LPD) statement from Oct. 4.
Gilmer filed to have her trial moved to juvenile court back in March 2023, KOLN previously reported.
In the meantime, the Star learned that Honigschmidt’s trial will also remain in adult court, as he allegedly provided Sallie the knife used to murder her father. Honigschmidt appealed, but the Nebraska Court of Appeals ultimately help up the ruling in July 2023.
Gilmer could face trial as an adult, too, unless the Nebraska Court of Appeals rules otherwise. The Court of Appeals will review both the judge’s ruling and the record, the Star says.
In March 2024, Lancaster County District Judge Andrew Jacobsen said that upon considering all the evidence pertaining to the case, he found “sound basis…
