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First Posted: 3/15/2012 
OPELIKA, Ala. &amp;#8212; A judge has tentatively set a June 25 trial date for the man accused of poisoning two iconic oak trees at Auburn's Toomer's Corner, pending an appeal trying to get him removed from hearing the case. 
Judge Jacob A. Walker III set the date Wednesday after a brief hearing for Harvey Updyke in Lee County Circuit Court that resumed after attorneys for both sides met privately for about 40 minutes, and with him for another half-hour. Defense attorney Everett Wess asked the judge to declare the 63-year-old Updyke indigent, waiving a $200 docket fee from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, which is set to consider an appeal seeking Walker's recusal.

June trial set for man in tree poisoning case