MANHATTAN -Michael Dehant, 22, Ogden, appeared in Riley County Court on Friday for a motions hearing in front of Judge Stutzman. Dechant’s motion was to withdraw his plea of ‘no contest’ of to second-degree murder.

In December 2013, Dechant was sentenced to over 26 years for the death of Dominick Lubrano, his girlfriend’s six-month-old son.

According to testimony, in March of 2013, Dechant was watching the child in an Ogden apartment and violently shook the child.

Three days later the boy died at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City of non-accidental head trauma, otherwise known as shaken baby syndrome.

According to the original plea agreement, Dechant pleaded no contest to second-degree murder.

Riley County District Court Judge, David Stutzman, accepted the agreement.

Lead prosecutor in the case, Kendra Lewison, told the Little Apple Post that a whole morning’s worth of evidence was presented Friday by Dechant’s defense council on his motion to withdraw his plea.

Judge Stutzman took the matter under advisement, and a decision should be made in the next few weeks.