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Mar 2, 2021 4:14 AM
Senior Judge William Martin will preside over a hearing today on a post-sentence motion by Charles Cook, the 65-year-old drifter acquitted last October of the 1991 shooting death of Myrtle McGill of Indiana, but convicted in a separate case for using the telephones while incarcerated at the Indiana County Jail to arrange drug deliveries with his girlfriend.
Cook pleaded no contest to five of seven counts against him for criminal use of a communication facility. Judge Martin, who was then president judge of Indiana County prior to his retirement, sentenced Cook to three to seven years in state prison for each count, with two counts running consecutively and the other three concurrently. That adds up to a total of six to fourteen years in prison.
BOWEN, COOK CASES RETURN TO INDIANA COUNTY COURT SCHEDULE By Todd Marino
Feb 9, 2021 4:28 AM
In Indiana County Court today, Senior Judge William Martin will conduct hearings on motions filed by two defendants over whose trials he presided when he was president judge last year.
Martin will hear a motion by 44-year-old Dwight Bowen, who was found guilty in September of third degree murder in the death of his SCI Pine Grove cellmate, Luis Santiago, on January 1
st of 2019.
Already serving life in prison for the firebombing deaths of two young children in Philadelphia in 2001, Bowen was sentenced in December to an additional 20 to 40 years in prison.