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BENNINGTON â A 79-year-old former law enforcement officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to obstructing justice in his long-running child sexual assault case.
Leonard Forteâs new felony charges come less than two weeks after the Bennington Superior Court found him physically capable of being retried on sexual assault charges going back three decades. He is accused of assaulting a 12-year-old girl at his Landgrove vacation home in 1987.
A retired investigator with New Yorkâs Suffolk County District Attorneyâs Office, Forte was convicted on three charges of sexual assault in 1988. But the presiding judge granted him a new trial, saying the female prosecutor had prejudiced the jury by being too emotional.
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BENNINGTON â A 79-year-old former law enforcement officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to obstructing justice in his long-running child sexual assault case.
Leonard Forteâs new felony charges come less than two weeks after the Bennington Superior Court found him physically capable of being retried on sexual assault charges going back three decades. He is accused of assaulting a 12-year-old girl at his Landgrove vacation home in 1987.
A retired investigator with New Yorkâs Suffolk County District Attorneyâs Office, Forte was convicted on three charges of sexual assault in 1988. But the presiding judge granted him a new trial, saying the female prosecutor had prejudiced the jury by being too emotional.
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