ELLSWORTH A Hancock County jury Friday found a former Gouldsboro man not guilty of raping his spouse. The jurors, however, did find him guilty on one of two misdemeanor counts of assault against his estranged wife. The verdict in the trial of Vladek Filler, 41, came after nearly a full day of deliberations by the jury. Members of Fillers family, including his 14-year-old son Nathan, who testified earlier this week, wiped tears from their eyes before and after the verdict was announced.
Former National Security Agency senior executive Thomas A. Drake pleaded guilty to a single in federal court in Baltimore on Friday, a day after striking a deal to dismiss Espionage Act charges that could have put him away for 35 years. Prosecutors said they will not request prison time for the , unauthorized access to the intelligence agency's intranet.
Mayor Sean Guard faces a misdemeanor charge of impersonating a law enforcement officer. ---
Interim city manager Dan Stanley is poised to give Topeka's governing body a chance to make the next move in the showdown with Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor over his decision to stop prosecuting misdemeanors committed in the capital city, including domestic battery. Stanley revealed plans Tuesday to arrange for that body next week to hear the first reading of a proposed ordinance that would repeal the part of city ordinance making domestic battery a crime, thereby forcing Taylor to handle the prosecution of those who commit domestic battery in Topeka.
Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor has offered the city a settlement through which he would review for prosecution all state statute misdemeanors committed in Topeka if the city made a one- time payment of $350,000 to his office. The city would have that money available because it would no longer need to reimburse the county for jail expenses that range annually from about $900,000 to $1.2 million, Taylor said in a memorandum dated Wednesday and sent to city council members and interim city manager Dan Stanley.
Buffalo attorney John P. Liberti was convicted Wednesday of breaking a man's ankle in a scuffle in the Town Ballroom in March 2010 but was spared automatic disbarment and a possible state prison term. Erie County Judge Michael F. Pietruszka, who heard two days of testimony at a nonjury trial last week, found Liberti, 49, guilty of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor.
When District Attorney Dan May took office in 2009, he wanted to take a tough line on driving under the influence and domestic violence cases. He also wanted his rookie prosecutors to get more trial experience - face time in front of juries - on traffic and misdemeanor cases so they'd be better prepared for the big leagues: felony cases.
PASADENA - John Muir High School Ken Howard has been charged with misdemeanor battery stemming from a Sept. 28 dustup with a student at the school, according to reports. Pasadena City Attorney Michele Beal Bagneris filed the charges.
Government prosecutors announced a last-minute plea bargain Thursday evening in a high-profile leak case against a senior National Security Agency official, dropping almost all the charges in a decision hailed by government-transparency advocates as ending a case of Obama administration overreach. Thomas Drake, whose trial on 10 felony espionage charges had been slated to begin next week, instead pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of exceeding his authorized access to a government computer system and will not serve prison time, according to a court filing from the Justice Department.
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