Phil Ray
The attorneys representing a former student intern in the Hollidaysburg Area School District, who was arrested but later cleared of leaving voicemail threats at five schools, contend in newly-filed legal documents that law enforcement violated their client’s constitutional rights by filing charges against him without probable cause.
They also maintain that now-retired Blair County District Attorney Richard A. Consiglio, and police officers from several local departments, are not legally protected from lawsuit by immunity.
Attorneys Ronald P. Carnevali Jr. and Toby D. Mcllwain of Johnstown are representing Scott M. Vinosky, who in the fall of 2019 was a student intern with the Hollidaysburg school district, attempting to complete the requirements for a master’s degree from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Phil Ray
Former Hollidaysburg Area School District intern Scott M. Vinosky has until next week to answer petitions by area police departments, a prosecutor and school officials, seeking dismissal of a lawsuit that charges he was falsely arrested for leaving threatening voicemail messages in 2019 at five of the district’s schools.
U.S. District Judge Stephanie L. Haines set Jan. 27 as the deadline for Vinosky, through his Johnstown attorney Ronald P. Carnevali, to respond to arguments that the lawsuit be dismissed based primarily on the immunity granted law enforcement to investigate criminal activity.
In late November, Carnevali filed an amended complaint, which prompted dismissal requests from Blair County, Logan Township and its police department, Allegheny Township police and, most recently, retired Blair County District Attorney Richard A. Consiglio, Hollidaysburg and its police officers involved in Vinosky’s arrest and two members of the school district staff, wh