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Show " FARMINGTON The father of a 15-year-old youth accused of killing a 2-year-old girl in Clinton last Aug. 6 may be called as a "hostile witness" wit-ness" by the prosecution, it was learned this week. A PRELIMINARY hearing will be held in Clearfield Fourth Circuit Court beginning begin-ning Friday morning and Davis County Atty. Rodney Page said it is "possible but not probable" that John Miller Sr.. the boy's father, may be used as a witness for the prosecution. prosecu-tion. He emphasized that the subpoena sub-poena was served on the elder Miller primarily to be certain that he would be available in case he was needed during the hearing. . THE PRELIMINARY hearing hear-ing is held to determine if there is sufficient evidence to bind the defendant, John P. Miller, Jr., 15, also of Clinton, over to Second District Court in Farm-ington Farm-ington to stand trial in the strangulation killing of Anne Elizabeth Hoskisson, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Hoskisson of Clinton. The youthful defendant has been held in Moweda Juvenile Detention Center in Roy since he first became a suspect in the slaying. He was transferred from First District Juvenile Court to Circuit Court following follow-ing a hearing that determined that the youth despite his young age should be tried as an adult. SIX WITNESSES for the prosecution have been named. Besides the boy's father, witnesses wit-nesses will be the Clinton police chief, two Clinton police officers, a former Davis County sheriff deputy who assisted in the investigation, and a member of the State Medical Examiner's staff. If convicted, the youth could be sentenced to life in prison or even the death penalty. pen-alty. HOWEVER, THE youth was bound over to stand trial as an adult when it was determined deter-mined that all stipulations for adult certification were met in the youth's case. Also, it was decided by First District Juvenile Court Judge L. Kent Bachman that since the juvenile court would lose supervision of the defendant at age 21, he should be bound over as adult. THE JUDGE ruled that it would be in the "best interest of the youth" because of improved im-proved rehabilitation programs prog-rams that are offered through the adult court system, grb |