After being found guilty at retrial earlier this month, Lyndon Wiggins is seeking a third trial over his role in the 2019 kidnapping and killing of Minneapolis realtor Monique Baugh .

Wiggins was set to be sentenced on Thursday, but his defense filed a motion for a new trial. The judge said he would have to read through the new motion before making a decision.

Wiggins, 40, was originally convicted in June 2022 and sentenced to life in prison. The Minnesota Supreme Court later reversed his conviction , saying the trial judge gave erroneous legal instructions to the jury. In a retrial that lasted nearly a month, Wiggins was convicted of aiding and abetting first-degree premeditated murder, aiding and abetting first-degree premeditated attempted murder, aiding and abetting k

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