Another appeal filed in murder of infant

YOUNGSTOWN — The prosecution has filed yet another appeal in the capital murder case of Terrance Tate, the man charged in the fatal beating of an infant, this time asking the appellate court to delay Tate’s trial, which is set to begin Nov. 10.

On Friday, the Mahoning County prosecutor’s office appealed an Oct. 14 order from the trial judge to the 7th District Court of Appeals.

The prosecution alleges that Judge R. Scott Krichbaum, of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who will preside over the trial, erred by declining to vacate an earlier order from Judge John M. Durkin that Tate’s confession to police was inadmissible as trial evidence.

Tate, 23, of Hilton Avenue, is accused of killing his girlfriend’s son, Javonte Covington, on his first birthday in April 2006.

The Friday filing came just one day after the appeals judges rejected earlier appeals from both the prosecution and defense in this case.

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