Rainy day's and Momday's...dwight's day in court..

Posted By: willie survive
Date: Saturday, 28 June 2003, at 6:26 a.m.

Rainy day's and Momday's...dwight's day in court...Plea bargain rejected

Monday, dwight will decide his own fate...either we will plead
guilty to the additional years in jail or want a trial..hummmm
sounds like a probblem for dwight..If he says yes to the additional
years that means that he is guilty without a doubt..this would be
his big chance to show off..All but one has pleaded out from the
original four who were indited...So who is dwight trying to save by
pleading to more time??? Why not stand trial and see what come out
in open court??? I knpw that dwight does not want that to happen so
my thougts are he will plead guilty again... That still won't
convince you die hards but the truth will be told...Can't wait till
monday.....

Plea bargain rejected in molestation case against Nuwaubian leader
Associated Press

MACON, Ga. - Defense attorneys for the former leader of the United
Nuwaubian Nation of Moors say a federal judge's rejection of a plea
bargain in a child molestation case against him raises new legal
issues.

Everybody knows he's pleaded guilty, said attorney Manny Arora, who
represents Malachi York, after U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson's
ruling was made public Thursday. "So it's going to be hard for him
to get a fair trial."

Lawson set a hearing on the case for Monday in Macon. Arora said
York will be asked to announce his decision on whether to withdraw
his guilty plea.

York, 58, was the leader of the quasi-religious group based on a 400-
acre farm in Putnam County. The group began as an Islamic sect in
the early 1970s in Brooklyn, N.Y. When York and his followers moved
to Putnam County 10 years ago, the group claimed York was an
extraterrestrial.

On Jan. 23, he pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of
transporting children across state lines for the purpose of illegal
sex and to one count of illegally structuring cash transactions.

The next day, he pleaded guilty in state court in Putnam County to
77 counts related to child molestation.

As part of the plea bargain, state and federal prosecutors agreed to
recommend that York be given a prison sentence that would make him
eligible for parole in approximately 12 years.

Arora said York's deal with state prosecutors remains in place, as
far as he is concerned. If York decides to go to trial, that would
cause problems for both sides, in part because it would be difficult
to assemble witnesses.