The homicide case involving a Maricopa woman might not see trial until after the third anniversary of the victim’s death.
Shawn Main, 48, was scheduled to stand trial in July in the first-degree murder and child abuse of 3-year-old Tiana Capps.
The toddler died of blunt force trauma at Banner Casa Grande Regional Medical Center after Main, the child’s caretaker, called for emergency help on Ralston Road southwest of Maricopa in December 2015.
In April, the defense team successfully pushed the trial to January.
Co-attorneys Chester Lockwood and Cody Weagant argued they needed additional time to prepare the defense, blaming much of it on their client’s alleged medical conditions.
Main’s health issues include “probable and suspected” heart problems, diabetes, chronic swelling and poor circulation of the feet, a goiter and a growth on her chest area, according to a court document filed in April.
The defense team said Main needs a primary care physician and a complete medical evaluation before an eventual thyroid surgery ahead of trial. Lockwood and Weagant wrote in their motion to court that neither they nor their client had a timeline for when those would occur.
Instead of preparing for her summer trial, Main and her attorneys are now hoping to dig through evidence they motioned for access to in May.
The defense is asking the court to release electronic devices seized by the state, including those belonging to Main’s co-defendants: her ex-wife Maria Tiglao and the victim’s biological mother Tina Morse.
“It is believed the seized devices contain exculpatory evidence and the state has possessed the same for nearly three years,” court documents state.
Main is also motioning the court for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) records for the victim and her three siblings who lived with Main and the other two women in a home in unincorporated Maricopa.
Court documents state the Casa Grande WIC office weighed and measured the children during each visit.
A medical examiner testified earlier this year that Tiana Capps was undernourished.
Counsel for the victims has until early June to file a response to those motions.
Main will be in court for a hearing July 16 at 3 p.m.
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