Even with the exhaustive coverage of the Nancy Workman case in the media over the past several weeks, the man prosecuting the Salt Lake County mayor says he has some incriminating evidence up his sleeve.

"There are a few things that haven't come out yet," special deputy district attorney Mike Martinez said Wednesday.

A preliminary hearing in the case will be held next week, unless Workman attorney Greg Skordas succeeds in getting the case dismissed or the preliminary hearing waived in a hearing today before 3rd District Judge Robert Hilder.

Martinez, who has objected to Workman's waiver of the preliminary hearing, nevertheless said Wednesday that "they could have waived the preliminary hearing at any time."

Martinez spent part of his day trying to get a file in a West Valley City court — a case in which he is the defendant's attorney remains open, a conflict of interest that may require him to withdraw from the Workman case — but was told the file was unavailable. He was forced to content himself with a copy of the court's docket sheet.

Meanwhile, county acting Mayor Alan Dayton spent part of his Wednesday before television cameras, recounting yet again his account of District Attorney David Yocom allegedly threatening in 2003 to "get" Workman by launching an investigation against her.

Workman's attorneys have argued that the incident shows Yocom was the wrong person to handle the case from the beginning, and that the whole thing should be thrown out and given to somebody — preferably Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, although Shurtleff says he doesn't want it — who is completely independent.

Skordas is running against Shurtleff for attorney general and concedes that taking on the Workman case probably was a bad idea, politically.

Also Wednesday, in an interview with radio talk host Tom Barberi, Workman staged a re-enactment of her now well-known walking out of a live interview with public radio host Doug Fabrizio last week — in reverse. Barberi pretended to be offended by a Workman comment, got up and walked out, with her coaxing him to return.

"It was obviously staged, but it was funny," said one listener.

Despite heavy pressure to withdraw, Workman is still running for re-election. A meeting of the Republican Central Committee is scheduled for next week, in which party members will take a vote on whether they continue to support her.

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