MIAMI (AP) -- A judge is hearing from witnesses before deciding whether to release a sealed arrest affidavit for a Florida teenager accused of killing more than a dozen cats.
Attorneys and reporters gathered in Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John Thornton's courtroom for an evidentiary hearing Wednesday afternoon. The Miami Herald and a CBS affiliate have filed a motion for the release of 18-year-old Tyler Hayes Weinman's sealed arrest affidavit.
Weinman has been charged with 19 counts each of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body. He also faces four counts of burglary related to the cat deaths. He was released on bond last week.
Weinman is accused of cat killings that terrorized residents of two south Miami-Dade County neighborhoods for about a month.
