Judge calls out disrespectful suspect accused of attacking cops with hatchet: What did you call me?
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Michael Viola, 22, charged police officers with a hatchet before they opened fire on him, according to the district attorney. He s pictured here in a 2018 mugshot.
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Viola, 23, apparently doesn’t have much respect for the judge on his case, either. He’s been jailed since leaving the hospital after the Dec. 31, 2019 police shooting on Grant Boulevard. Viola is charged with multiple counts of menacing a police officer and weapons possession.
On Thursday, he hoped state Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy might approve a plea deal that would get him out of jail. When that didn’t happen, Viola lost his cool.
Syracuse man guilty of sexual attack on Landmark Theater actress: ‘Do you want to die?’
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
Syracuse, NY A Syracuse man was taken to jail in handcuffs Thursday after being convicted of attempted kidnapping as a sexually motivated crime in the random attack on an out-of-town actress performing at the Landmark Theater in 2019.
Clifford Woods, 40, was caught on police video grabbing the woman as she walked past the Clinton Plaza Apartments, 550 S. Clinton St., around 4:30 p.m. Sept. 30, 2019. The 32-year-old actress was following her cell phone’s directions to a nearby pharmacy on Gifford Street to buy her mom a birthday card, prosecutor Anthony Copani told a jury.
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