The Kalispell man who allegedly threatened to shoot up a school and assassinate local Jewish leaders is set to go to trial in March.
David Lenio was previously scheduled to go to trial this month but his attorney recently filed a motion to push the trial back to March 14. It is expected to take up to five days. This is the second time the trial has been pushed back in two months.
Lenio is facing a felony charge of intimidation.
Lenio was originally supposed to go to trial in November but just days before it was supposed to begin Public Defender Brent Getty filed a motion to continue. In it, Getty wrote a plea deal was in the works and that it was possible that a trial could be averted.
The motion prompted speculation that the felony intimidation charge against Lenio could be reduced to a misdemeanor or a deferred prosecution. Soon after, a small protest was held outside of the Flathead County Justice Center and an online petition urged County Attorney Ed Corrigan to take the case to trial.
Lenio was arrested last winter after he sent a series of threatening messages on Twitter. On Feb. 16, he told police that he was “trying to bring attention to certain social issues,” according to court documents.
Lenio spent five months in the Flathead County Detention Center before being released into the custody of his family in Michigan.