A man accused of stabbing a lecturer on thought transference last month at a downtown Santa Fe hotel will remain in jail unless he can come up with $250,000.
On Friday, state District Judge Michael Vigil set the cash-only bond for Kazuki Hirano of Yokohama, Japan, who has been held for a month at the Santa Fe County jail on a charge of attempted aggravated battery with a knife or, in the alternative, attempted murder. If convicted of the first charge, he faces up to three years in prison. If convicted of the second, he faces up to nine years. No further hearings have been set in the case.
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