The long-delayed criminal trial for a cross-country murder-for-hire case that ended

BURLINGTON – The long-delayed criminal trial for a cross-country murder-for-hire case that ended with a Northeast Kingdom man gunned down in January 2018 is now tentatively set for March. Serhat D. Gumrukcu, 41, of Los Angeles, had been scheduled to start trial in U.S. District Court in Burlington earlier this week, but one of his lawyers was diagnosed with cancer, and a postponement was approved last month. Chief Federal Judge Christina Reiss agreed during a status conference in the case Friday afternoon, heard proposed timelines by both sides before beginning to focus on mid-March.