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Convicted Killer Who Escaped Prison Will Represent Himself At Trial
By detroit.cbslocal.com
Published: 06/30/2014

IONIA, Mich. (WWJ/AP) – A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan prison on Super Bowl Sunday will represent himself at trial on escape, carjacking and kidnapping charges.

Ionia County Judge David Hoort granted 41-year-old Michael Elliot’s request during a court hearing earlier this week. A trial date wasn’t immediately set. Attorney Randy Norton will serve as stand-by counsel.

Elliot was captured on Feb. 3 in LaPorte County, Indiana. It was a day after he escaped from a prison in Ionia, 35 miles east of Grand Rapids. He allegedly slipped under gates and made holes in fences before carjacking a woman.

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