BENNINGTON The survivor who testified against Leonard Forte in his first sex assault trial and a former chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court both argued Monday in Bennington
BENNINGTON — The survivor who testified against Leonard Forte in his first sex assault trial and a former chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court both argued Monday in Bennington
Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Â
BENNINGTON â Two doctors said Tuesday that retrying Leonard Forte would endanger his already poor health â statements that the case victim heard during her first time back in a Bennington courtroom since Forteâs original trial in 1988.
Dr. Robert Lobel, a cardiologist with the University of Vermont Medical Center, said itâs âan incredibly bad ideaâ to ask 79-year-old Forte to travel back here from Florida given his various heart ailments.
Forte is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Landgrove in 1987, after he retired as an investigator with New Yorkâs Suffolk County District Attorneyâs Office. He was convicted the following year on three counts of sexual assault, but the presiding judge ordered a new trial, saying the female prosecutor had prejudiced the jury by being too emotional.
Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Â
BENNINGTON â Two doctors said Tuesday that retrying Leonard Forte would endanger his already poor health â statements that the case victim heard during her first time back in a Bennington courtroom since Forteâs original trial in 1988.
Dr. Robert Lobel, a cardiologist with the University of Vermont Medical Center, said itâs âan incredibly bad ideaâ to ask 79-year-old Forte to travel back here from Florida given his various heart ailments.
Forte is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Landgrove in 1987 after he retired as an investigator with New Yorkâs Suffolk County District Attorneyâs Office.
Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.
BENNINGTON â Florida police spoke Wednesday about seeing Leonard Forte walking and breathing without trouble, which prosecutors said contradicts Forteâs claims of being in such bad health his decades-old child sex case should be dropped.
Forte, 79, is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at his Landgrove vacation home back in 1987. A retired investigator in New York, he was convicted the following year, but the presiding judge ordered a new trial, saying the female prosecutor had prejudiced the jury by being too emotional.
Forte began presenting evidence this week that he is too sick to be retried; therefore, his three felony charges should be dismissed â assertions he has made since the 1990s. State prosecutors believe Forte has been lying all along and have been gathering supporting evidence.