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Aug 13, 2007 2:56 pm US/Pacific

Bailey Slaying Suspect Has Problem Getting Lawyer

OAKLAND (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ― A court hearing Monday for a 19-year-old handyman charged in the murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey was postponed because the suspect has had problems in getting a lawyer to represent him.

Devaughndre Broussard, who had been expected to enter a plea during Monday's arriagment, is now scheduled to return to Alameda County Superior Court on Thursday.

Broussard -- who worked at Oakland's Your Black Muslim Bakery -- has been in custody without bail after being charged with the shooting death of Bailey, who was the editor of the Oakland Post newspaper.

Broussard puportedly told Oakland police that he murdered the journalist because he didn't like stories Bailey had written and researched on the bakery.

Broussard's aunt, Pat Harris, said outside court that San Francisco attorney LeRue Grimm attempted to interview Broussard at the Alameda County Jail on Saturday but the sheriff's department would not let him talk to the defendant.

Sheriff's officials couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Harris said she's talked to Broussard, who faces 50 years to life in state prison if convicted of first-degree murder and using a weapon, in jail and "he said he didn't do it."

Three other men who ran the bakery were also scheduled to appear in court Monday in a separate case, but that hearing was also delayed.

Yusuf Bey IV, 21, and associates Joshua Bey, 20, who's his brother, and Tamon Halfin, 21, will all return to court on Wednesday to possibly enter pleas on charges that they kidnapped and tortured two women in Oakland on May 17. They face life in prison without parole if they are convicted.

They have not been charged in Bailey's death.

Yusuf Bey and Halfin don't have lawyers yet, court officials said. Joshua Bey has a lawyer, David Washington, but he didn't show up in court Monday.

Joshua Bey told Judge Morris Beatus that Washington "said he'd be late" for Monday's hearing, which was scheduled for 9 a.m., but Beatus continued the case until Wednesday, as it already was past 10:30 a.m.

The trio are being held without bail.

Joshua Bey asked Beatus, "Am I going to have a bail?" The judge told him to ask his attorney to make a bail motion on his behalf.

As for the defendants finding lawyers to represent them, a veteran defense attorney who has handled numerous death penalty cases said he would never represent any of them because of the bakery's reputation for violence.

The attorney didn't want to disclose his name.

(© CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The Associated Press and Bay City News contributed to this report.)

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