Keith Adams, Yancey’s attorney, said Judge Linda Warren Hunter, who will hear the case, does not have a trial calendar for the remainder of 2009.

“At this point, we’re probably looking at going to trial sometime early next year,” Adams said. 

Yancey remains locked up in the DeKalb County Jail. He is being kept in isolation there. Adams said he had spoken with Yancey on Oct. 28 to discuss the case and Yancey is ready. 

“We discussed our strategy and we will be ready to go to trial,” Adams said.

Yancey had left the country after breaking off his ankle monitoring device while on house arrest at his mother’s Clayton County home. He had been a fugitive since April 4, 2009, fleeing a week before his 50th birthday on April 11.  Yancey was captured in the Central America country of Belize on Sept. 21 while drinking a beer at a bar in the vacation city of Punta Gorda. A tipster contacted authorities about Yancey.  Yancey was returned to Atlanta under heavy security on Sept. 26.

Adams said his client fled because he didn’t believe he would get a fair trial. Adams said that Yancey maintains his innocence and the case is defendable.

Yancey was charged with killing his wife, Linda, 44, and day laborer Marcial Cax-Puluc, 20, in the Yanceys’ Stone Mountain home in June 2008.  Yancey told authorities that Cax-Puluc shot his wife. Yancey said he then shot Cax-Puluc in self-defense. That story eventually unraveled and police charged Yancey with both killings. 

Linda Yancey was employed as a county detention officer with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.