The family of cold-case murder victim Sandra Cassidy Williams has filed a complaint against Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich alleging she is withholding trial records from them. However, Rich told Lagniappe releasing those records has the potential to derail the case.

Judy Barfield, a sister of Williams, who was murdered in 1980 when she was 19, filed the complaint on Sept. 8 in Mobile Circuit Court, seeking a judge’s order to compel Rich to release a number of documents pertaining to a March 2020 mistrial of Williams’ accused killer.

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