Records say she also chose to lower his bond because the other seven men charged in Garron Lewis’ death had already been released on a lowered bond. The judge said she agreed to lower Layne’s bond so many times because COVID-19 kept delaying Layne’s trial, documents show. He is now fleeing arrest, as police have issued an arrest warrant for second-degree battery, battery on a school teacher, interference in the operation, terrorizing, aggravated obstruction of a highway, and criminal trespassing. Layne bonded out of jail on this reduced bond in January 2021, and only four weeks later, authorities say he put his child’s bus driver in the hospital after attacking her on a school bus. In September 2020, the judge agreed to lower his bond for a fourth time to only $100,000. Layne and his family said they still could not pay the bond, according to court documents, and his attorneys kept pushing. When Layne was arrested for Lewis’ murder in 2019, his bond was set at over $1 million, but it didn’t stay that high for long.įive months later, a judge reduced his bond to just $400,000, and three weeks after that, his bond was reduced to $250,000. In January 2021, he was released, and just four weeks later, police say he attacked this bus driver.Ĭourt records News 10 uncovered show the murder suspect was able to walk about of jail after a judge lowered his bond $900,000, but it was not slow process. Father speaks out after son’s alleged killer is now accused in attack on an Iberia Parish school bus driver
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