killings and has subpoenaed the prosecution 's evidence . Nothing has been handed over yet , he said . He would not speculate on when the case might go to trial . `` You 're talking about some time down the road , '' Kutnick said . Balfour , indicted a month ago , entered a not guilty plea last week . Tuesday was the first time Balfour has been before Judge Marjorie Laws , who was appointed last week after prosecutors asked that Judge Evelyn Clay be removed from the case . Prosecutors did not make public their reasons for wanting a new judge . While Judge Laws ordered Balfour to be moved to Chicago , Kutnick said he expects it might just be for 10 days . `` The sheriff of Cook County does not always obey those orders because he is dealing with his own problems such as jail overcrowding , '' Kutnick said . `` He 's doing OK '' despite `` being incarcerated under a difficult position , '' Kutnick said of Balfour . `` When any inmate is serving a sentence on a parole violation , they 're kept in what 's called the
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A judge ordered Tuesday that the man accused of killing singer and actress Jennifer Hudson 's mother , brother and nephew be moved from a state prison to the Cook County jail to make it easier for his lawyer to meet with him . Jennifer Hudson , at the October premiere of `` The Secret Life of Bees , '' has n't performed in public since the killings . William Balfour , 27 , has been held at Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet , Illinois , since he was arrested in early December in what defense lawyer Joshua Kutnick called `` a difficult position . '' '' -LSB- Balfour -RSB- has exhibited , to me , patience , '' Kutnick told CNN after Tuesday 's hearing . `` He understands that this case is not going to be over this week or next week or next month , '' Kutnick said . `` He realizes in order for us to establish that he 's not guilty , that we 're going to have to go through all the steps of fighting the case . '' Kutnick said the defense is conducting its own investigation of the