DADE CITY - Questions over the interpretation of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling have put a hearing in the Kristina Gaime case on hold, at least temporarily, a prosecutor said Monday.
Gaime is charged with murder and attempted murder in what authorities say was a failed murder/suicide plot in April 1999 at Gaime's Land O'Lakes home. Gaime, 39, has been in jail since she was arrested shortly after rescue crews found one son dead in her minivan. Gaime and her surviving son, Adam Rotell, then 8, were found inside the home.
A hearing scheduled for today was to have determined whether anything Adam said to investigators could be entered as evidence. Prosecutor Phil Van Allen said a Supreme Court ruling earlier this month casts questions on what is and isn't admissible.
