Update: The jury has rendered a not guilty verdict for accused rapist Marcelo G. Mota.
A Superior Court jury will begin deliberations Wednesday in the trial of Marcelo G. Mota, a Delran man accused of a series of sexual assaults against women in Moorestown in 2005.
TRENTON — A jury Thursday cleared computer tech Darren Maglione of charges he allegedly sexually assaulted his 12-year-old babysitter during the summer of 2009 at his Robbinsville home.
A Willingboro man was acquitted Monday of most of the charges against him, including kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault, in the alleged attack of a 14-year-old girl in Willingboro six years ago.
MOUNT HOLLY — A Superior Court jury acquitted a Willingboro man of all charges in the motel murder of a Beverly man four years ago.
TRENTON — Famed defense attorney Robin Kay Lord blasted the Trenton Police Department after Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled that cops who investigate crimes cannot destroy their contemporaneous notes after writing up official reports.
Walter Funderburg, 57, of Trenton, for the last four years was facing serious drug charges on allegations he possessed and intended to sell a whopping 3 kilograms of cocaine.
For more than a decade, Lord has been successful in getting juries to question the authorities and accept her versions of the events in some major crimes.
The jury returned the verdict around 5 p.m. after deliberating over Diaz’s fate all day yesterday and part of Wednesday.
Henry Minus, 27, allegedly met with 15-year-old Hanifah Allen in the North Clinton Avenue apartment she shared with her mother, Gloria, on Feb. 6, 2001.
“Justice was served,” said his teary-eyed attorney, Robin Lord, after the jurors left the courtroom. “I have complete faith in the jury system.”