Attorney Keith Adams has filed a motion to withdraw as Yancey’s attorney. Adams declined to discuss the matter, but maintained that Yancey is ready for his day in court.

“He’s eager for his day in court,” Adams said.

Adams had said in November that he expected Yancey to go to trial sometime early this year before Judge Linda Warren Hunter. Adams said he doesn’t know when Yancey will go to trial now.

Yancey was charged in June 2008 with killing his 44-year-old wife, Linda, who worked as a detention officer for the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, and day laborer Marcial Cax-Puluc, 20. Yancey told police that Cax-Puluc was inside their home and shot his wife and he in turn shot Cax-Puluc. After investigating, however, police didn’t believe Yancey’s story and they charged him with both shootings.

Yancey, who was under house arrest after he was charged, fled the country after breaking off his ankle monitoring device. He was living at his mother’s house in Clayton County when hetook off the monitoring device. Yancey was a fugitive from April 4, 2009 until Sept. 21, 2009 when he was captured in the Central American country of Belize while drinking a beer at a bar in the tourists’ town of Punta Gorda. A tipster contacted authorities and Yancey was returned to Atlanta under heavy guard on Sept. 26. Yancey remains in the DeKalb County Jail.