Thursday, May 29, 2008

What's a Re- Arraignment?

A re-arraignment in the case of allegedly demented dad Mark Castillo is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. tomorrow before the Honorable Gale E. Rasin, Room 509, Courthouse East.

The first arraignment didn't take?

5 comments:

Sean said...

A rearraignment, I believe, usually occurs when a plea deal is being worked out, or a defendant changes his/her plea

Sean said...

...so I wonder if he's changed his plea to guilty?

ppatin said...

3 shootings (including one police involved shooting) in the city last night.

Sean said...

Apparently, after Castillo pled not criminally responsible, the judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation, which may have led to the rearraignment.

ppatin said...

How common is it for NCR defenses to actually succeed?

As for him changing his plea to guilty, why in the world would he do that? I can't imagine the State's Attorney's office accepting a sentence of anything other than life w/o parole, so it's not like Castillo has any incentive to plead guilty. If PJ let's him plead out in exchange for straight life (i.e. with the chance of parole) I swear I will go take a shit on her doorstep.