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A Scottdale man serving a 40-year-prison sentence for the sexual assault of a child is now claiming that Westmoreland County prosecutors coached witnesses during his trial last year.
According to an appeal filed Tuesday, Dylan Chiaramonte said the judge who presided over his rape trial improperly allowed the prosecution to elicit expert testimony based on false reports, coached testimony of sexual assault victims and erred when a forensic interviewer was allowed to tell jurors she did not observe red flags during her questioning of the victim.
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John Panucci of Hempfield is embraced by Westmoreland County Judge Christopher Feliciani during a drug court graduation ceremony last year at the courthouse.
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Westmoreland County’s drug court became the 33rd accredited special court in Pennsylvania, a designation officials said could enable the six-year-old program to secure additional grant funding for future years.
William Shifko, the county’s drug court coordinator, said since the program was launched in September 2015, 51 participants have graduated. One more is set to join them during an April 28 ceremony at the Westmoreland County Courthouse. It will be the first graduation ceremony for the program since last summer and will include other participants who completed drug court since July.