A former investigator on Long Island, a district attorney, has quashed a lawsuit in Vermont on charges of molesting a 12-year-old girl for more than 30 years – claiming she is mentally ill.
Leonard Forte, 79, a former investigator with the Suffolk County County Attorney’s Office, is accused of molesting the youngster on several occasions in February 1987, and was convicted the following year by a jury, Bennington Banner reported.
But when a judge ordered a new trial, Forte allegedly came up with a new defense strategy – claiming that he was dying to go back to court and was very ill.
Poyle appeared to be working until January when prosecutors in Green Mountain State shook his hands on surveillance video showing Lars, who now lives in Florida, bounce around the city with his wife and seemingly That he is healthy.
Vermont Assistant Attorney General Linda Purdy told the newspaper, “Contrary to what their medical experts said, two of whom have said that they can basically go through their activities of daily life and leave the house or bed.” “
The prosecution is now planning to produce four witnesses – including two Florida police – to prove that Fort has not been making claims for the past three decades.
Fort still plans to make another pitch to dismiss the three felony child sexual assault charges against him on March 30.
His attorneys, meanwhile, will attempt to remove the Florida surveillance video as evidence against his client, stating that “there was news to defend.”
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