Waco, TX: Ex-minister on trial in January in wife's death

Dec. 30, 2009, 10:17PM

WACO, Texas — A judge ordered two attorneys to continue representing a former minister charged with killing his wife and making her death look like a suicide.
The Waco Tribune reports the attorneys tried to withdraw as defense counsel Wednesday. They said "a serious and material breach of confidence has developed" between them and 38-year-old Matt Baker.
Baker is charged in the April 2006 death of his wife, Kari.
The 31-year-old elementary school teacher and mother of two was thought to have committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills.
An indictment alleges Matt Baker gave her the pills and suffocated her with a pillow.
He has denied killing his wife. The murder trial is set to start Jan. 11.