Branden Riddle-Terrel allegedly had been on a drug- and whiskey-fueled binge before he launched a savage attack on Ryan Roth, stabbing him at least 18 times at Roth’s Lake of the Pines home in February. Two women who had been at the party the night of Feb. 23 testified at the preliminary hearing for Riddle-Terrel in Nevada County Superior Court Tuesday. Riddle-Terrel has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with a special allegation of use of a deadly weapon in Roth’s death, as well as one count of criminal threats against a female victim. Melissa Lawrence, who had …
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