“I learned a great deal from him, about how to be a good lawyer and how to be an ethical lawyer,” she said in an interview on Monday, 11 days after Andes died on Nov. 9.
Part of the evidence that Rovito heard was a 9-1-1 call that Frei played of Melendez’s cry for police assistance that evening. Children could be heard screaming and crying in the background as Melendez pleaded for help.
WEST CHESTER — A hearing on escape charges against convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante that is set for this week is likely to be continued as the defense waits for additional criminal counts to be added to the cases, sources say. The preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Friday before Magisterial District Judge Matthew Seavey of Avondale in his court on West Cypress Street outside Kennett Square. But should the state Attorney General’s Office decide to lodge new charges, the proceedings would likely be continued until sometime later, possibly in the coming year. Those new charges could include theft of a […]
The five judicial seats for the Chester County Court of Common Pleas that were on the ballot Tuesday will all be filled by Democrats, remaking the political line up of the county’s trial court – a change in complexion that could last a generation.
Democrats kept their hold on the Chester County courthouse in Tuesday’s Municipal Election, besting their Republican opponents for all of the open seats and re-establishing that theirs is the dominant political party in the county, as numbers have shown since 2020 and elections have proven since even before then.