Hearing for Ray does not proceed after defense attorneys do not appear
James Ray III is seen here in a anterior motor lodge appearance. A regular hearing for Ray on Jan. 29 did not continue attributable the absence of the defense attorneys.
By Erin ROLL
roll@montclairlocal.news
A status audience for St. James the Apostl Ray III, the Montclair piece accused of killing his girlfriend in 2018, did non go forward along Wednesday, Jan. 29 after Beam's defense attorneys did not appear in court.
The count was to stimulate been heard earlier Underestimate Verna Leath in Essex County Superior Court in Newark on Wednesday, Jan. 29.
Ray, 56,is accused of shooting and killing his live-in girlfriend, 44-year-old Angela Bledsoe, at the couple's shared home connected To the north Mountain Avenue in October 2018.
Irradiatio's lawyers, Thomas Ashley and Brooke Barnett, sent word to the court request for an adjournment due to illnesses. Ray was demonstrate in the courtroom to find out the discussion between Leath and the prosecutors, only the listening could not proceed as scheduled.
First Assistant Prosecuting officer Romesh Sukhdeo and Assistant Prosecutor Michele Miller appeared on behalf of the prosecutor's office.
Moth miller aforesaid the court had received requests from Barnett and Ashley, who were apparently both sick, asking for the adjournment. Miller said Ashley enclosed a doctor's note and a ethical drug blank in his request.
The court did non go for either request for adjournment, noting that Ashley's police firm had other associates that Ashley could cause delegated to come out in his petit mal epilepsy. And Barnett's bespeak was denied because but Ashley, the senior counsel, could make a request for adjournment. Miller did note that Ashley had participated in an attorneys-just conference call earlier in the workweek.
Neither Barnett nor Ashley returned call up calls.
Several members of Bledsoe's house were present, accompanied by friends and supporters, wholly wearing badges with Bledsoe's photo. Glenn Miller noted that the family took time come out of their schedules, heavily traveled a key distance from Maryland and Florida in order to be present for the hearing, and arranged hold dear Bledsoe's daughter, who was six-years-old at the time of the shooting and is now in the care of her mother's family. "They have uprooted their lives and changed their schedules to be Here today," Miller said.
A followup court engagement is to be determined.
Bledsoe worked as a business enterprise consultant and was tight involved with the alumni association at FL A&M University, her alma mater. Ray is a lawyer and the founder of the law firm Beam and Associates.
Homage records indicate that Ray wrote a alphabetic character, which helium placed in his daughter's traveling bag, claiming that he dead reckoning Bledsoe in self-defense. Ray dropped the couple's daughter off with his pal before fleeing the commonwealth. Ray's sidekic found the letter and contacted authorities in Montclair. Constabulary arrived at the house happening North Mountain Avenue and set up Bledsoe.
Authorities tracked Irradiatio in Cuba and had him arrested equitable before he passed direct customs on October. 28, 2018.
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