EDINBURG (TX)
The Monitor

November 28, 2017

By Molly Smith

EDINBURG — The judge presiding over the John Feit trial, which is arguably the highest profile case in Hidalgo County history, spent the final pretrial hearing leading up to the first day in court briefing members of the media on protocol.

Given local and national media interest in the case, and in an effort to minimize courtroom distractions, 92nd state District Judge Luis Singleterry designated a single pool photographer and pool videographer.

The Monitor will be providing still photography to all media and CBS’ “48 Hours” will be in charge of video. The crime and justice series previously ran a segment on the Irene Garza cold case in 2014.

Now 85 years old, Feit is accused of murdering Garza, a then 25-year-old schoolteacher, in April 1960 after she went to confession at McAllen’s Sacred Heart Church. He was a…