She said that Garry Frank, the Davidson County district attorney, met with her and her husband, David Lynch, in his office at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. Frank, she said, told her that he would be offering Molly Martens Corbett and Thomas Martens the chance to plead guilty to manslaughter. In the first trial, a jury was asked to decide between second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter or not guilty in the death of Irish businessman Jason Corbett. The jury convicted both Molly Corbett and Martens of second-degree murder and they are now serving between 20 years and 25 years in prison.
A conviction on voluntary manslaughter would likely mean considerably less prison time for Molly Corbett and Martens. Tracey Corbett Lynch said Frank gave attorneys for Molly Corbett and Martens a week to consider the offer.
Lighting and signalling issues are the most common reason drivers fail their MOT (Image: Express)
Bill Fennell, Director of The Motor Ombudsman said there was an “element of concern” demand will be lower in March and September.
He said: “The research offers an interesting insight from those businesses that are ‘on the ground’ conducting the MOT tests.
“It is encouraging to see that the majority estimate that MOT volumes will hold up during the peak months, but there is equally an element of concern that demand may also be lower than March and September last year.
“There will also undoubtedly be more challenging periods for businesses in between, such as in April and May, due to the knock-on effect of motorists using the Government’s six-month MOT extension introduced in response to the pandemic.”
The N.C. Supreme Court ordered on Friday a new trial for Molly Corbett and Thomas Martens in the 2015 murder of Irish businessman Jason Corbett, saying that the two were denied a fair trial.
The decision comes about two months after the court heard oral arguments in the case via video due to the ongoing pandemic. In a 4-3 decision, the state Supreme Court upheld the decision by the N.C. Court of Appeals to overturn the murder convictions of Molly Corbett and Martens.
In the next three weeks, they will be moved from state prison to the Davidson County Jail. Their attorneys will ask a judge to set a bond affordable enough for them to be released from custody. In 2016, after they were charged with murder, they were each released on a $200,000 bond.
When did the jury of nine women and three men swing towards a second-degree murder conviction rather than believing the story of self-defence? Was it the dramatic forensic evidence of blood spatter expert Dr Stuart James?
The Florida-based expert, one of the world s leading authorities on blood spatter analysis, effectively recreated the last moments of the Limerick father-of-two s life in the early hours of August 2, 2015 in the bedroom of his luxury home.
He determined that Mr Corbett may very well have suffered the first of at least 12 horrific blows to his head while in or by his bed.
He also determined that Mr Corbett s head was repeatedly struck in a descending motion - in other words as he fell to the ground.