Nikolay Soltys Has Been Charged With Seven Counts of Murder
NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: We are going to take you live now to Sacramento, California, where accused killer Nikolay Soltys will make his first court appearance since he was arrested last week. Soltys is accused of killing his wife, son and four other relatives. CNN's Rusty Dornin is covering the story for us, and Rusty, we are hearing that you just received the official charges against him?</s>RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Natalie. Under way right now is the press conference with the district attorney of Sacramento County and she has announced seven counts of murder with a dangerous and deadly weapon. Now, of course, Nikolay Soltys did kill six of his relatives, but his wife was pregnant, so are there seven counts of murder, all with special circumstances. The district attorney says she's not sure whether they will be seeking death penalty in this case or weather it will be life in prison without parole. Now, I did speak earlier with the defense attorney Tommy Clankenbeard (ph) who said that they are also considering an insanity plea, but that's one of many options. What Clankenbeard (ph) did tell me was that he claims he was denied access to Soltys for nearly a day and half, and that he had to get a court order to get in to see his client with the Ukrainian translator. Now, the significance of that could be that anything that the -- Soltys told the investigators could be suppressed if his attorney was not present. At least, that's what his defense attorney is claiming right now. Meantime, of course, investigators are trying to piece together the puzzle of exactly where Soltys was during the past 10 days. He claims he was alone living in the abandoned house before he went to his mother's house last week, but investigators are not ruling out the possibility that there was someone who might have been helping him. He is here at the Sacramento County jail, which is used for high- profile inmates. The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was housed here. He is being held in isolation and will appear at his arraignment here in the jail in a couple of hours. It will be his first court appearance. So, right now, he's looking at seven counts of murder, and we are not sure whether he will be facing a death penalty case or not -- Natalie.</s>ALLEN: All right. And we'll hear back from you during that arraignment. Rusty Dornin in Sacramento, we thank you.