GUILTY MT - Matthew Hatfield, 49, murdered, Butte, 28 Nov 2008

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

From Summer's link above:

The top of Matt Hatfield’s skull was later found near a campground north of Butte, but the location of the rest of his body remains a mystery.

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His missing persons report has been removed from the Montana database.

Rest in peace, Matt.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://mtstandard.com/news/local/tr...cle_fa0f8d8a-a9bd-5ac2-bc49-a2cd07ffea93.html

Hatfield's deliberate homicide trial was slated to begin Dec. 3. The new start date is Feb. 17, 2015. It is expected to take at least a week-and-a-half...

After Matt Hatfield, 49, went missing, police looking for him found blood spattered on the walls of the cabin, a stove and a nightstand, documents say.

A breakthrough in the case came in April 2012, when a private laboratory found “a high probability that the skull discovered is that of the parent of Adam Hatfield and that the skull was the donor of the DNA sample from the blood discovered inside the cabin,” court documents say. Later, a state medical examiner determined a large part of the skull was missing and that could be the result of blows from a baseball bat.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.abcfoxmontana.com/story/28122231/adam-hatfield-murder-trial-postponed-to-april

The murder trial of Adam Hatfield, a Butte man accused of killing his father more than six years ago is postponed until April.

 

[luckyseven]

Trial starts for Butte man accused of killing father with baseball bat
Apr 07, 2015 10:39 AM CDT

A trial started Monday for a man accused of beating his father to death with a baseball bat in Butte over six years ago.

Adam Hatfield, 25, is charged with deliberate homicide. He's accused of killing his father, 49-year-old Matt Hatfield, in December 2008 in a cabin off Roosevelt Drive.

 

[KateB]

Mistrial declared in Hatfield trial
Apr 16, 2015 5:06 PM CST
http://www.krtv.com/story/28825029/mistrial-declared-in-hatfield-trial

All 12 members of the jury had to reach a guilty or not guilty verdict in the this case, but court officials haven't said why the mistrial was declared as of this afternoon.

Under a mistrial, Adam Hatfield remains innocent, but could be charged in this case again at a later date if the county attorney's office decides to do so.

New trial set Sept. 8 in Adam Hatfield deliberate homicide case
20 hours ago
http://mtstandard.com/news/local/ne...cle_d1c8a7bc-8995-5efd-9b90-ef2210d9a810.html

A new trial for a 25-year-old man accused of beating his father to death in 2008 has been set for Sept. 8 in Butte district court.

Judge Kurt Krueger declared a mistrial April 16 for Adam Hatfield after jurors deadlocked on the deliberate homicide charge. The county attorney’s office immediately filed its intention to retry the case.

Prosecutors believe Hatfield killed his 49-year-old father, Matt, and then attempted to burn the baseball bat he used as a weapon and cover up the crime in the small cabin they shared on Roosevelt Drive south of Butte.

 

[Rayemonde]

October 2015:

A state judge has scheduled a Feb. 8 retrial for a 25-year-old man accused of beating his father to death in 2008...

His retrial had been scheduled for Sept. 8, but his family hired a private attorney who asked for more time to prepare.

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2015/10/21/new-trial-date-set-for-butte-homicide-case-after-mistrial/

 

[OkieGranny]

Retrial scheduled to begin tomorrow:

http://billingsgazette.com/news/cri...cle_b6269370-130e-516d-ab62-8235172f8242.html

In light of recent bomb threats made on the courthouse and in other locations in the Mining City, Krueger on Wednesday ordered the court would comply with a contingency plan created by Butte-Silver Bow police and the county executive during Hatfield's trail. Visitors and employees will be subject to a search. The plan may include prohibiting bags, boxes and other items from entering the courthouse.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://mtstandard.com/crime-and-cou...cle_64509d3f-fae1-5ccd-9fea-afdb02790463.html

The mother of a 25-year-old man on trial for allegedly killing his father in a cabin they shared south of Butte testified Tuesday that he was deceptive and had a penchant for stealing.

http://mtstandard.com/crime-and-cou...cle_f6ef5a76-35d6-52fa-b5dd-09db2e481b2e.html

The charred baseball bat prosecutors believe Adam Hatfield used in the fatal beating of his father in 2008 was shown to jurors Wednesday in Butte district court.

Wearing black gloves, Detective Lt. George Holland held the alleged weapon found by Butte-Silver Bow County investigators in late December 2008 on the front porch of a cabin south of Butte, where Hatfield, then 18, had lived with his 49-year-old father Matt Hatfield.

http://mtstandard.com/crime-and-cou...cle_f9e6ff38-2f03-5f6d-8fba-d3c81d34ee32.html

In Thursday’s proceedings, Butte-Silver Bow detective George Holland introduced evidence from the cabin south of town. Evidence included flooring, carpeting, and checkbook box, among other miscellaneous blood-splattered items authorities collected from the crime scene.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://mtstandard.com/crime-and-cou...cle_86f60ba3-5f4a-512f-b793-0769ba71a5c0.html

Jurors found Adam Hatfield guilty after nearly 10 hours of deliberations of killing his 49-year-old father, Matt, with a baseball bat.

Hatfield is facing an additional 10 years for brandishing a weapon during the commission of the offense, court documents state. He will be held at the Butte-Silver Bow County Detention Center while a pre-sentencing investigation is completed.

 

[0101ABA]

Adam Hatfield, convicted for the 2008 murder of his father, was sentenced in Butte on Tuesday to life in prison.

Hatfield appeared to handle the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison the same way he handled being found guilty of murdering his father: with indifference.

The 25-year-old showed no emotion when Judge Kurt Krueger sentenced him to life in the Montana State Prison for the 2008 beating death of his 49-year-old father, Matt Hatfield, in a cabin off Roosevelt Drive.

http://www.ktvq.com/story/33150469/hatfield-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-killing-his-father

 

[Rayemonde]

Justice at last...

 

[JerseyGirl]

Prosecutors and police in Butte are pleased that the Montana Supreme Court has upheld Adam Hatfield’s 2016 conviction for killing his father, saying it should finally settle a case that took a decade to investigate, try and defend on appeal.

Montana Supreme Court upholds 2008 Butte homicide conviction; police applaud decision