Provo » The man accused of killing Kiplyn Davis will have to wait almost five months before he sets foot in a 4th District Courtroom again.
Fourth District Judge Lynn W. Davis set Timmy Brent Olsen's next status hearing for April 7, in anticipation of the Utah Supreme Court's action on a request to move the hearing out of Provo.
Carolyn Howard, Olsen's attorney, told Davis that she will be filing briefs with the high court before Dec. 2, and the state will have 30 days to respond.
Olsen is accused of murdering then-15-year-old Kiplyn, who disappeared from Spanish Fork High School in May 1995. Her body has never been found, but prosecutors say Olsen had told several people that he had beaten, raped and killed her in Spanish Fork Canyon.
In October 2008, Davis rejected Olsen's request to move the trial out of Utah County, prompting an appeal to the state Supreme Court. The high court agreed to hear the appeal in April.
Howard said she wants Olsen's trial heard in either Heber or Fillmore, where jurors have not been exposed to more than a decade's worth of media coverage about the case.
Richard M. Davis, Kiplyn's father, expressed frustration at the additional delay.
"It's not like the federal system," Richard Davis said. "We ought to look at changing the laws to speed it up."
He acknowledged the delay is difficult for Olsen and his family, who want to see the proceedings completed.
Howard said her client is optimistic about the case.
"He's settled himself in," Howard said. "He's been cooperative with his attorneys, and he is a very kind person."
Regardless of the delays, Richard Davis vowed to continue to attend every hearing as he has done before.
"We don't give up," Richard Davis said. "We continue to fight."
Olsen had previously been found guilty of lying to a grand jury about Kiplyn's disappearance, and was sentenced to 150 months in prison. His former co-defendant, Christopher Neal Jeppson, was also sentenced to five years in prison for lying to federal investigators about his whereabouts when Kiplyn disappeared. The murder charge against Jeppson was dropped when he pleaded no-contest to obstructing justice charges in state court, and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Three other men involved in the case -- Scott Brunson, David Rucker Leifson and Garry Von Blackmore -- earlier pleaded guilty to federal perjury charges.
