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Trial postponed for former UNM director of basketball operations
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Cody Hopkins, a former University of New Mexico director of basketball operations, has waited five years for his day in court, and now he’ll have to wait a bit longer.
Hopkins’ trial on felony fraud and embezzlement charges had been scheduled to begin Thursday. But the trial now will be postponed until late October at the earliest, said a spokeswoman for the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office, which is prosecuting the case.
“The reason for the reschedule is due to a health issue” for a member of the prosecution team, spokeswoman Lauren Rodriguez said.
Second Judicial District Judge Bruce Fox, the presiding judge, had not scheduled a new trial date on Thursday, court records show.
Hopkins, 41, was charged in April 2018 with one count of embezzlement over $20,000 and five counts of forgery of $2,500 or less, according to his indictment. All the offenses allegedly occurred from January through December 2015, when Hopkins left the Lobo men’s team.
Prosecutors allege Hopkins fraudulently obtained about $63,000 using a university-issued credit card, most in the form of cash withdrawals from ATMs.
Hopkins served under former-Lobos basketball head coach Craig Neal, who is listed as a witness for the prosecution.
Hopkins also served under former UNM athletic director Paul Krebs, who was acquitted in July following a four-day trial in 2nd Judicial District Court. A jury found Krebs, 66, not guilty of two felony counts of embezzlement in connection with a 2015 golfing trip to Scotland.
