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U.S. District Judge Nicholas J. Bua on Thursday denied a request for a new trial for Robert Kubat, a Lyons man who was sentenced to die in the electric chair after his conviction for the November, 1979, kidnaping and murder of a Kenosha grandmother, Lydia Hyde. Bua rejected Kubat`s contention that he did not receive competent legal representation during his 1980 trial in Lake County Circuit Court. But Bua ordered a new sentencing hearing for the defendant, agreeing with Kubat that the judge who presided at the previous sentencing hearing erroneously instructed the jurors and that the defendant did not receive competent representation at that hearing.
