At a status hearing this past Monday Wellsville's Eric Dillard's bond was reduced to $250,000 or 10%. Bond was posted and Mr. Dillard was released Monday afternoon. He has to wear a monitoring device and is restricted to his house. He is only allowed out for medical emergencies and court appearances.
Since the April shooting death of Jamie Farley Dillard has been in the County Jail with a $2 million bond. Until Monday the judges refused to reduce that amount.
Dillard is scheduled for trial next Tuesday, July 15 at 9 A.M. However his attorney was reported to filing a request for a continuance in today's papers. According to the papers that is normal for such cases to give the attorneys time to digest the reports exchanged at status hearings. The continuance request will probably be granted and a new trial date scheduled for a later date.
ole nib
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How nice...must be something to do with being a Wellsville person that allows murder suspects to get their bonds lowered when others sit in jail on lesser charges for higher bonds.
I figured that was going to happen.
In a similar-but-not case, is there anything new with the Amato case? I haven't heard anything, but for some reason the dark recesses of my brain tell me something was supposed to be going down in August.
According to court records Amato is scheduled for a status hearing on 9/5/08 and Jury Trial on 9/16/08.
ole nib
I'll believe that when I see it.
To no one's surprise Dillard's defense team was granted a continuation last Friday. New trial date is now set for 11/18/08. There will be a status & motions conference October 20th. In the meantime Mr. Dillard remains under house arrest.
ole nib
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