Lawyers for Ariel Ginjauma Jr. said Thursday they want him released on bond, saying the evidence turnover in his attempted murder case has been too slow.

Ginjauma, 45, of Hillside, Illinois, and formerly Hobart, is charged with shooting at his estranged wife Evelyn Ginjauma in November 2023 after she was acquitted that day of stabbing his female business partner.

Judge Pro Tempore Jamise Perkins, filling in temporarily, said she didn’t know enough about the case. However, the fact that Ginjauma skipped bond a week later and the U.S. Marshals arrested him in El Paso didn’t look good.

“You would get an uphill battle here,” she said.

She reset the hearing to Feb. 20 before Judge Gina Jones.

Defense lawyer Maryam Afshar-Stewart asked to force Hobart Police Det. Brandon Kissee to appear next week.

After requesting discovery — or the case’s evidence — since August, she’s only gotten a handful of videos, and some other documents, including a two-page detective summary.

Deputy Prosecutor C.J. Washington said she turned over everything she had so far.

Perkins, a longtime defense lawyer, told Washington there was “no reason at all” to justify why police haven’t turned everything over to her. She ordered the full case file be turned over.

If Afshar-Stewart or his other lawyer Mark Gruenhagen, who is representing him in another case, wanted Kissee in court, they could subpoena him, Perkins said.

She set his initial trial date for July 14, with a pretrial conference in June.

Ariel Ginjauma filed for divorce less than a week before the shooting.

Evelyn Ginjauma filed a civil lawsuit against him this week, records show.

A criminal affidavit alleged he pushed into their home and pointed a gun at a 15-year-old girl at the top of the stairs. After the girl bolted to a bathroom, he fired a shot in the house. Ginjauma then chased Evelyn Ginjauma down the driveway, while she ran screaming and started to open fire. It was captured on a doorbell camera. No one was hurt.

As a teen, Ginjuama, then known as Ariel Gomez, was wrongfully convicted for a 32-year-old man’s death during celebrations for the Bulls’ 1997 championship win. He served about 20 years in prison.

He sued disgraced Chicago Detective Reynaldo Guevara and the city of Chicago in federal court for wrongful conviction in 2018. That case is still pending.

Defense lawyers in that case unsuccessfully tried to subpoena the Lake County prosecutor’s office for more information. It was denied as a pending investigation, filings show.

Federal Judge Jeannice W. Appenteng, with the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, ruled in July that it legally wouldn’t have a bearing on that case, because he hadn’t been convicted.

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