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Courthouse watch: 8.24.09

Robbie  Bishop ( front right ) appears via closed circuit video in the Superior Court of Judge Sam Cozza Monday August 24, 2009. CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON chrisa@spokesman.com (Christopher Anderson / The Spokesman-Review)

The teenager charged with stabbing his pregnant girlfriend to death was released from jail in the spring because there was no room in mental health services, court documents show.

Robbie W. Bishop, 19, appeared in court via video today, charged with second-degree murder for the brutal slaying of Robin M. Anderson, 33. He was held on $1 million bond.

Bishop is pictured above with public defender, Anna Nordtvedt.

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