Perez's lawyer opposes combining cases

By ConnPolitics.tv Staff on Nov 2, 2009 | In News, Hartford Politics | 2 feedbacks »

Hartford (AP) – Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez is trying to keep allegations that he tried to extort $250,000 from a real estate developer separate from charges that he accepted a bribe.

Perez is due in Superior Court on Wednesday on a prosecutor’s motion to combine all the corruption charges into a single case.

According to The Hartford Courant, Perez’s lawyers, in a brief filed Monday, argue that consolidating the cases would mean a lengthy trial and therefore a jury of “retirees, state workers or employees of large corporations.” They say that would make it difficult for Perez to “be judged in part by the minority community that he serves.”

Perez was arrested in January on the bribery charges and in September on the extortion-related charges.

He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Comment from: GLENNA MACDONALD [Visitor] Email
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They want him judged by the folk he serves.
Scince when are jurys made up of retireres,state workers or employees of large corporations.
Then again he should have two seperate hearings for each case.
~Peace Glenna~
11/03/09 @ 10:07
Comment from: Steve [Visitor] Email · http://www.paratrooper.net
Pfft... Perez and his lawyer know it's alot easier to spin a single charge than defend against multiple ones. Jury is less likely to believe something was an honest mistake when there is an obvious pattern.
11/03/09 @ 13:10

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