Central Pa. man, 67, jailed for two heroin OD deaths can’t withdraw his guilty pleas, state court says
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
A year after a Dauphin County judge told him he was “legally and morally responsible” for two heroin overdose deaths, a state appeals court has refused to allow a 67-year-old drug dealer to withdraw his guilty pleas in the case.
Instead, the Superior Court panel found that county Judge Richard A. Lewis was correct to sentence James Frederick Newman to 8 to 20 years on prison based on the guilty plea to two drug delivery resulting in death charges Newman entered in the middle of his trial in January 2020.