LAKE COUNTY ? A preliminary hearing for Lakeport resident Ivan Garcia Oliver, accused of murdering a neighbor he believed to be a child molester, is set for Wednesday morning in Dept. 3 of the Lake County Courthouse in Lakeport, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Hinchcliff.
Oliver was arrested on a murder charge Nov. 20, 2007, after he allegedly stabbed and killed neighbor Michael A. Dodele, who had been a registered sex offender, in his Lakeshore Boulevard home.
Lake County Superior Court Judge Arthur Mann will preside over the prelim. Hinchcliff said he expects the hearing to take one day or less.