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A judge in Passaic County on Tuesday ordered a Clifton cop to remain jailed indefinitely on charges of sexually abusing a 16-year-old relative, assaults that allegedly occurred over a two-year span and included letters on Valentine’s Day.
The severity of the charges alone was enough to detain Frank Castro-Ramirez, who was arrested last week, until his criminal case is resolved, state Superior Court Judge Marybel Mercado-Ramirez ruled during a virtual hearing. She also declared Castro-Ramirez a potential “risk to the community and other young girls,” and worried that the Clifton cop would obstruct justice by influencing the victim’s family members, who are also witnesses, should he be released.
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A North Jersey man found guilty in the grisly murder of two men who were shot and set ablaze in Paterson will get a new trial over a controversial police interrogation that tainted the jury’s verdict, a state appellate court ruled.
The decision, issued Monday, wiped away an 80-year-prison sentence against Gerry Thomas, an alleged accomplice to the murders of Aaron Anderson and Antonio Vega. The men’s charred bodies were found inside a blazing white Audi on East 28th Street in March 2017. Both had been shot twice in the head.
A jury convicted Thomas, 31, on two counts of felony murder, and single counts of aggravated arson and attempted robbery after a three-week trial in 2018. Those verdicts, however, are now voided because two Paterson detectives misled Thomas during an interview that led to his arrest, telling him that he could avoid being charged with the murders if he responded to their questions, the court found.
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It’s looking highly unlikely that there will be a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to examine Jan. 6. Republicans in the House are backing off a deal to establish one and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has come out against it, claiming a partisan slant even though the parties would be equally represented. This comes as some GOP lawmakers downplay the severity of the riot we all saw happen.