Trial Delayed For South Charleston Woman

{Charleston, West Virginia}...The trial for 25 year old Leslie Erin Boggs of South Charleston, who is accused of fatally smothering her baby in 2010, was scheduled for this week, but Kanawha County Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib Jr., has agreed to postpone the proceedings in light of recent evidence prosecutors intend to present that call attention to the mother's past as a drug and alcohol user. Prosecutors say Boggs was intoxicated by a combination of liquor and prescription pills the night her daughter, Raynna, died. During an evidence-suppression hearing Monday, Kanawha County Assistant Prosecutor Dan Holstein said Boggs' past experiences with the substances made her aware that blacking out would have been a likely event. Boggs' lawyer, Michael J. Del Giudice, said evidence of the mother's history is not relevant to the case and will only prejudice the jury, while slurring his client. Zakaib denied Del Giudice's motion to suppress the evidence and postponed the trial to February.