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