Judge will stay on manslaughter and vehicular homicide case

Judge will stay on manslaughter and vehicular homicide case

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- The judge in the trial against 18-year-old Damian Laurelez will stay on the case. That ruling came down Wednesday afternoon. Defense attorneys for Laurelez had filed a motion to have Judge Mark Barnett remove himself from the case based on comments he made in public that they say were biased against their client. Laurelez was 17 years old at the time when authorities say he slammed an SUV into a Sioux Falls home while…