GLASGOW — A Barren County woman accused of murder in the death of her father will have her bond modified, opening the prospect of her release from jail pending a trial.

Cheryl Leighanne Bennett, 47, of Glasgow, and her mother, Donna Logsdon, 72, are each charged with murder in connection with the death of Logsdon’s husband, Michael Logsdon.

The 75-year-old Michael Logsdon died on July 9, 2022, at his home.

Court records indicate that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative nerve disease, and was in the late stages of the disease at the time of his death.

Bennett and Donna Logsdon are accused of causing his death by turning off Michael Logsdon’s bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPap) machine that he used as a breathing aid.

Donna Logsdon is free after posting a partially secured $500,000 bond that requires her to remain under home incarceration, but Bennett’s bond was revoked late last year after multiple violations that involved positive drug tests.

Bennett has been in Barren County Corrections Center since Oct. 13, where she has been held in lieu of a $500,000 cash bond.

Her attorney, John Olash, filed a motion to have a bond hearing, questioning the sufficiency of the prosecution’s evidence against Bennett.

Olash filed some paperwork with the court purporting to show that the BiPap data used by the state medical examiner’s office to determine the cause of Michael Logsdon’s death was from a machine with a different serial number than the machine in use on the day of his death.

Olash said there is evidence to show that a BiPap machine delivered to Logsdon’s house in February 2022 malfunctioned and was replaced two months later, and he requested this past December to inspect the machine that is currently in custody as evidence at the Glasgow Police Department.

“The BiPap machine is the smoking gun, so to speak, in this case,” Olash said during a hearing Friday in Barren Circuit Court.

Scheduling issues have cropped up to prevent Olash from accessing the machine, and in the interim Blake Chambers was appointed as a special prosecutor in the case, replacing previous special prosecutor Kori Beck Bumgarner, who withdrew last month.

Bennett gave brief testimony at her bond hearing Friday about how she would comply with the conditions of her bond if it were modified to an amount that she would be able to post.

“I would take the opportunity to seek treatment in an intensive outpatient program,” Bennett said while answering questions from Olash. “I would also like the opportunity to work with a therapist as well as a grief counselor.”

At a previous bond revocation hearing, Bennett was ordered by Barren Circuit Judge John Alexander to enter and complete an inpatient treatment program at a Georgia facility.

Bennett said she completed the program, but was unable to access any aftercare programs while under house arrest.

Cross-examined by Chambers, Bennett denied leaving the house to obtain drugs or having people bring drugs to her home.

“I found drugs in an apartment behind the house,” Bennett said.

Natasha Mahaney, a respiratory therapist, was called as a witness by Olash and testified Friday about bringing the original BiPap machine to the Logsdon household in February 2022.

Mahaney said she received a text message from Terri Jo Harris, Michael Logsdon’s daughter and primary caregiver, that the machine was malfunctioning, and a second BiPap machine was delivered to the home in April 2022.

Chambers made several objections to Olash’s line of questioning, disputing its relevance to the proceedings and arguing that Olash was attempting to hold a “miniature trial” while questioning Mahaney when she had not been able to review records to help prepare her to testify.

Near the end of the hearing, Alexander said he would review the records in the case file when drafting an order to alter Bennett’s bond.

“Very often, we say that past performance is a predictor of the future, and past performance has not been ideal in this case … (but) it’s not my objective to have her or anybody sitting in jail indefinitely,” Alexander said. “I’m committed to making a modification. I don’t know what form that’s going to take.”

In other matters, Chambers agreed to produce bank records and Ring camera footage requested by Bennett’s defense attorney.

Olash had filed motions to direct the prosecution to provide bank records that Donna Logsdon provided to Glasgow Police Department Detective Brian Starnes during the investigation.

His motion claimed that Donna Logsdon provided bank records to the police supporting her allegation that Terri Jo Harris was negotiating unauthorized checks from her father’s bank account.

Olash also sought access to data from Ring via a search warrant, saying that a Ring video system had been installed at the exterior of the house and in the living room, where Michael Logsdon’s bed was kept.

Harris and her father were the only people who had access to the Ring account, Olash said in his motion, and a cell phone extraction conducted by GPD on Michael Logsdon’s phone purportedly showed that the Ring app on his phone was accessed and the password changed on Sept. 12, 2022, more than two months after his death.

No trial date has been set, and Alexander scheduled a pretrial conference for May 2.

“You have to squint really hard to see what progress has been made moving this case along,” Alexander said.