GLASGOW — The prosecution in the case against a mother and daughter charged with murder in Barren County signaled Friday that it will not object to defendant’s request for certain records.

A status conference was held Friday in Barren Circuit Court in the cases against Donna Logsdon, 73 and her daughter Cheryl Bennett, 48, both of Glasgow.

The two are charged with murder in the death of Logsdon’s husband and Bennett’s father, Michael Logsdon, 75, who died at his home in Glasgow on July 9, 2022.

Michael Logsdon was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative nerve disease that kept him bedridden and requiring the use of a bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPap) machine to help him breathe.

Bennett and Donna Logsdon are accused of conspiring to tamper with the BiPap machine.

In the week prior to Friday’s hearing, Bennett’s attorney, John Olash, filed a series of motions requesting additional records as part of its investigation.

One motion filed Feb. 7 requested that the court order the Kentucky State Medical Examiner’s Office to test for the specific amounts of any medications in Michael Logsdon’s system.

According to the motion, hospice records indicated that Michael Logsdon was taking five medications, including oxycodone and quetiapine, an antipsychotic medication sold as Seroquel.

The combination of opioids, anti-anxiety drugs and other medications prescribed to Logsdon could have adverse health effects, and while testing indicated the presence of medications in Logsdon’s systems, the analysis did not give specific amounts.

“A quantitative drug level test is needed to determine if the combination of drugs played a role in Michael Logsdon’s death,” Olash said in the motion.

Special Prosecutor Blake Chambers said in court Friday that he did not object to the request for more testing.

A separate motion filed by Olash requested a toxicology test showing the amount of Seroquel in Michael Logsdon’s fluids and the production of records showing the specific amount of Seroquel, to which Chambers gave no objection Friday.

Olash also filed a motion on Feb. 13 requesting that United HealthCare Insurance be ordered by the court to provide the defense with records regarding the order for a ventilator for Michael Logsdon from Vanderbilt University Hospital.

Olash claims in the motion that Natasha Mahaney, a medical professional who was a caretaker for Logsdon, ignored the order to transition him from a BiPap machine to a ventilator, and that Vanderbilt doctors had warned that the BiPap machine was at risk for failing.

According to the motion, Mahaney performed a functionality test of the BiPap machine for the Glasgow Police Department after Logsdon’s death, and reportedly told a detective that documentation did not support a proposed transition from the machine to a ventilator.

“Mahaney never submitted the (ventilator) order to UHC for authorization,” Olash’s motion said. “Mahaney’s claim that ‘documentation didn’t support it’ is not true.”

That motion requests the health insurer turn over customer service phone call logs regarding Michael Logsdon’s prescriptions, case comments, requests from Mahaney regarding the ventilator prescription and all documents related to the order.

Chambers indicated Friday that he did not object to that motion as well.

Barren Circuit Judge John Alexander set a pretrial conference for March 7 and imposed deadlines for Chambers to file notice as to whether he plans to try Bennett and Cheryl Logsdon together or separately.

Both women are set to go to trial July 9.