“It is our expectation that we are going to find data, potentially, a recording of the victim during the time we can prove that Krystal was not inside that home,” attorney Greg Coulson, who represents Krystal Erbelding, said.

Labor Cabinet Secretary David Dickerson filed a notice of removal in U.S. District Court Thursday, essentially moving the case filed by Attorney General Andy Beshear and the JCTA from Franklin Circuit Court to federal court.

The cabinet is investigating the closures as potentially illegal work stoppages.