Monday, August 27, 2007

TRIALS WRAPPING UP

The two week long trials that have taken place in court are expected to wrap up this afternoon. Closing arguements in the Thomas Phelan sexual assault trial in front of Judge Howard F. Riley, Jr. is expected to begin at 13:00 today; the Mark McFall trial being heard by Judge Phyllis Strietel is also expected to go to the jury later today. Once a verdict is reached in these trials, the rest of the lists can resume (one would hope).

Several of today's pleas from both courts that were scheduled for today were heard by Judge James MacElree II, who also sentenced two cooperating witnesses in the recently completed Oscar Lugo trial as part of his regularly scheduled Miscellaneous Case docket...

Luis A. Colon, 34, was sentenced to 11-and-a-half to 23 months county incarceration and 5 years probation on two separate counts - Racketeering and Conspiracy to Possess a Controlled Substance With Intent to Deliver; based on the 3 years and 4 months while in jail awaiting trial and sentencing, Colon was paroled immediately. Felix A. Reyes, 31, pled guilty to one count of Corrupt Organizations, one count Conspiracy to Possess a Controlled Substance With Intent to Deliver, and one count of PWID. He was sentenced to 7-and-a-half to 20 years in state prison (with concurrent sentences of 5-to-10 years on the Conspiracy charge and 27 months-to-20 years on the Corrupt Organizations charge). Lugo, 37, is tentatively scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday at 13:30.

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