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By Liz Kellar | Staff Writer
The issue of consent and whether a BDSM contract was enforced under duress was the crux of the arguments of both prosecution and defense as the sexual assault trial of a 62-year-old man began Wednesday in Nevada County Superior Court.
Wesley Carl Panighetti is facing felony charges of sodomy by use of force, forcible oral copulation, criminal threats, first-degree burglary and dissuading a witness, as well as one misdemeanor count of battery, Nevada County Superior Court records state.
Panighetti has pleaded not guilty.
Deputy District Attorney Helenaz Moteabbed Hill told the jury Panighetti and the victim had an on-again, off-again relationship riddled with abuse for 20 years.
Liz Kellar | Staff Writer
A 73-year-old man charged with murder in the death of his wife is set to go to trial in February in Nevada County Superior Court.
Dennis Michael Daly was arrested in late October 2019 after authorities alleged he punched Stacey Sokol Daly, 63, repeatedly in the head. Stacey Daly died Nov. 2, 2019, after lapsing into a coma.
Dennis Daly’s trial was initially scheduled to start in January. Deputy District Attorney Cambria Lisonbee on Tuesday requested a continuance, however, because she has a different murder trial starting the week before. Judge Scott Thomsen found good cause to grant the request and rescheduled the trial date to Feb. 9.
The woman stood in the courthouse hallway screaming.
She’d just watched the man who killed her son get sentenced to eight years in prison. Even in Georgia, he likely wouldn’t serve the full sentence. It was only manslaughter, after all.
“What he did was murder,” the woman told the media. “He had intent.”
It was a case very similar to one just now starting in Nevada County Superior Court. In that case, six men are accused in the fatal shooting of a woman in a November pot deal gone wrong. Only one of them faces a murder charge, though. Only the shooter.