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David Sweat arraigned on escape charge
By amny.com
Published: 08/21/2015

One of the convicted killers who led law enforcement on an intense three-week manhunt after escaping a maximum-security prison in upstate New York pleaded not guilty to an escape charge on Thursday.

David Sweat, 35, in his first court appearance since the June 6 breakout from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, appeared for his arraignment in a green prison jumpsuit, his right arm in a sling, in the courtroom at Clinton County Government Center in Plattsburgh.

"Yes, I do," Sweat said when asked by Judge Patrick McGill whether he understood his legal counsel would be Plattsburgh attorney Joseph Mucia.

The judge then entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of first-degree escape on behalf of Sweat, who was serving a life sentence without parole at Clinton.

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