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  • #141
Carman's aunts win access to federal court documents

"PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The aunts of Nathan Carman are one step closer to getting documents from his federal case in Rhode Island admitted into their probate case in the state of New Hampshire.

According to a decision issued on Monday by United States Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan, Valerie C. Santilli, Elaine Chakalos and Charlene Gallagher have been admitted as intervenors in a suit filed by their nephew against National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. and the Boat Owners Association of the United States, who have denied payment for the loss of his boat, the Chicken Pox. The insurance companies denied the claim "because your boat's sinking was caused by your intentional acts ... [and] the loss was not fortuitous or accidental." The insurance companies contend that Carman, by physically altering the boat, created an "unseaworthy" vessel....

Sullivan ruled the aunts have the right to many of the documents submitted in Rhode Island, noting the factual claims alleged in New Hampshire Probate Court "align with the factual claims" at issue in the federal case..."

Carman's aunts win access to federal court documents
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Attorneys ask judge to hold Carman in contempt

"BRATTLEBORO — If Nathan Carman continues to avoid attempts to disclose the location of a rifle he purchased five weeks before his grandfather was killed, he should be held in contempt of court. So writes David J. Farrell, Jr., legal counsel for a pair of maritime insurance companies that have denied payment to Carman, who owns a home in Vernon, for the loss of his boat, the Chicken Pox.

"It is time for Nathan Carman to come clean on his Sig Sauer's whereabouts or be held in contempt of court," writes Farrell in documents filed on Aug. 22 with the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island...."

Attorneys ask judge to hold Carman in contempt
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  • #142
Insurance company seeks order to force Nathan Carman gun testimony

September 17, 2018

"Lawyers for National Liability and Fire Insurance Co. will go before a federal judge in Rhode Island tomorrow to push for a court order forcing Nathan James Carman to testify to the whereabouts of a high-powered patrol rifle the company suspects he used to murder his wealthy grandfather.

National Liability and Fire Insurance had insured Carman’s 31-foot fishing boat, Chicken Pox, for $85,000 when it sank two years ago — presumably with his missing mother aboard. The lawyers are asking U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan to order the 24-year-old Vermont man’s July deposition resumed “on the topic of his purchase of that rifle and its whereabouts, including what he did with that rifle after purchasing it, did it kill his grandfather, why was it not found by search warrant, what has happened to it, how long did Nathan Carman possess it, and where is it now?” according to a motion filed with the court...."

Insurance company seeks order to force Nathan Carman gun testimony
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  • #143
In Courtroom Surprise, Nathan Carman's Lawyer Offers New Details In Grandfather's Murder Case

September 18, 2018

"A federal court hearing that began Tuesday as a process to determine whether Nathan Carman would be compelled to testify about his purchase of a rifle turned into a mini trial on the unsolved slaying of his grandfather, John Chakalos....

On Tuesday, Judge Patricia Sullivan eventually granted insurance company attorney David Farrell’s request to reopen Carman’s deposition in the case so he could ask him questions about his purchase of a Sig Sauer rifle in New Hampshire weeks before his grandfather’s slaying in December 2013.

But during a heated argument in front of Sullivan over that issue, Carman’s lawyer, David Anderson, revealed that there is evidence that he says could exonerate Carman as a suspect in his grandfather’s death, including that Chakalos communicated with someone other that Carman on the night of his death. Carman, police have said, was the last person to see Chakalos alive. Chakalos was shot to death in his Windsor home.

“There is evidence that [Chakalos] had a long phone conversation with a woman exchanging information with her about money,” Anderson said in court. “There is also is a witness who claims the murder took place around 2 a.m. and there is video that shows Nathan was at his apartment until 2:40 a.m.”

Farrell started to rebut Anderson, but Sullivan stopped them both and said they weren’t going to try the murder case Tuesday....

Sullivan also said she would allow Anderson to depose three witnesses who could buttress Carman’s claim he had nothing to do with his grandfather’s death...."

In Courtroom Surprise, Nathan Carman's Lawyer Offers New Details In Grandfather's Murder Case
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WS thread John Chakalos: CT - CT - John Chakalos, 87, Windsor, 20 December 2013
 
  • #144
Lawyers given green light to question Nathan Carman about gun purchase (with clip)

Sep 18, 2018

"PROVIDENCE R.I. (WPRI) - A federal judge in Providence has granted lawyers permission to question Nathan Carman about weapons he purchased in New Hampshire in connection with an insurance claim on a mysterious sinking of a boat in 2016.

Carman, 24, of Vermont, was not in court on Tuesday, but his attorney argued against a motion to compel him to answer questions about the 2013 firearms purchase. The weapons were bought at "Shooters Outpost" in Hookset, NH weeks before the murder of his millionaire grandfather in Connecticut....

On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia Sullivan denied the motion before the court to compel testimony from the defendant, but advised the plaintiffs to file a motion to extend discovery instead.

This would allow insurance company attorney David Farrell to depose Carman again, so they could ask him about the purchase of a Sig Sauer rifle from the New Hampshire gun shop....

According to court filings, Farrell said he wants to ask Carman "what he did with the rifle after purchasing it, did it kill his grandfather, why was it not found by search warrant, what has happened to it, how long did Nathan Carman possess it, and where is it now."

In allowing the questioning, Sullivan said Carman has the right to refuse to supply answer by pleading his 5th amendment rights."

Lawyers given green light to question Nathan Carman about gun purchase
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  • #145
Nathan Carman Tells Judge Aunt Wants To Punish Him For Grandfather's Death

September 27, 2018

"The normally mundane proceedings of a probate court were more like a showdown Thursday between Nathan Carman and his aunt Valerie Santilli, who didn’t hold back telling him under oath she has always believed that he killed his grandfather and that she was sure when his boat was lost at sea he would return and his mother wouldn’t.

The two relatives sat less than 10 feet apart as Carman, acting as his own attorney, questioned her about why she has refused to give him $150,000 from the Nathan Carman Family Trust — a fund that his grandfather John Chakalos set up on Carman’s behalf in 2011....

Nathan Carman asked his aunt if she believed Linda Carman was still alive.

“I don’t know where she is,” Santilli replied..."

Nathan Carman Tells Judge Aunt Wants To Punish Him For Grandfather's Death

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(Nathan Carman questions his aunt, Valerie Chakalos, left, as she sits next to attorney Michael Georgetti during a probate hearing Thursday in West Hartford. [Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant])
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  • #147
New Hampshire Judge Sets January Trial Date in Nathan Carman Case

October 4, 2018

"A New Hampshire judge said Thursday that the civil trial pitting Nathan Carman against the three aunts who are accusing him of murder will begin Jan. 21.

After once again asking Carman why he hadn’t hired an attorney, Judge David King told both sides that the trial will go on as scheduled and last at least 10 days.

Carman's aunts — Valerie Santilli, Elaine Chakalos and Charlene Gallagher — have filed a so-called slayer petition alleging that Carman killed his grandfather, John Chakalos, in 2013 and was responsible for the death of his mother, Linda Carman, who was lost at sea during a fishing trip with her son in September 2016....

King then asked Small and his colleague, Robert Satterly, if they planned to produce any evidence that Linda Carman is indeed dead. Under the law in Connecticut, where she was living, a person cannot be declared legally dead until he or she has been missing for seven years.

“We are going to move forward and offer proof that we believe will lead you to conclude that Linda Carman is deceased,” Satterly said....

John Chakalos was killed in his Windsor home on Dec. 20, 2013. He was shot multiple times at close range with a weapon that uses .308 caliber bullets. Windsor police consider Nathan Carman to be a suspect and applied for an arrest warrant but a prosecutor would not sign it...."

New Hampshire Judge Sets January Trial Date in Nathan Carman Case


WS thread for John Chakakos: CT - CT - John Chakalos, 87, Windsor, 20 December 2013
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  • #148
Lawyer: Ballistics Report Raises Question About Whether Nathan Carman's Missing Gun Is Murder Weapon

October 8, 2018

"In a recent court filing, an attorney for Nathan Carman wrote that a state police ballistic report raises questions about whether the bullet that killed Carman’s grandfather, John Chakalos, in 2013 could have come from a missing gun that belongs to Carman.

Attorney David Anderson filed the two-page ballistics report recently as an exhibit in federal court in Rhode Island in an attempt to convince a judge not to reopen Carman’s deposition in that case. The company that insured Carman’s boat, which sank while he was on a fishing trip with his mother in 2016, want Carman to answer questions about his purchase of a Sig Sauer rifle weeks before Chakalos’ shooting death in December of 2013...."

Lawyer: Ballistics Report Raises Question About Whether Nathan Carman's Missing Gun Is Murder Weapon
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  • #149
Nathan Carman ordered to bring rifle to deposition this month

October 15, 2018

"A young man suspected of killing his mother and grandfather as part of an alleged plot tied to an inheritance worth millions has been ordered to bring a rifle to his secret deposition in Vermont later this month — the gun attorneys believe is the missing link to solving the 2013 homicide of real estate magnate John Chakalos.

Lawyers for the company suing Nathan Carman to avoid an $85,000 insurance payout on his 31-foot sport fishing cruiser Chicken Pox are not disclosing the date and location of their 90-minute videotaped interview of Carman “to avoid a media spectacle,” they tell U.S. District Court of Rhode Island Magistrate Judge Patrica A. Sullivan. They state in a new filing they “have made arrangements with the local Sheriff’s Office for a deputy to inspect the firearm, ensuring it is unloaded before it is produced for inspection at the deposition.”

Whether Carman actually shows up to his court-ordered deposition with the firearm in hand will bear directly on whether he was involved in a scheme “to accelerate his multimillion-dollar inheritance, with him the last known person to see both relatives alive,” by “jettisoning the firearm while fishing the day after his grandfather’s murder,” and then rendering the Chicken Pox unseaworthy with his mother aboard, the attorneys argue...."

Nathan Carman ordered to bring rifle to deposition this month
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  • #150
New Theory About Millionaire Grandfather's Death In Nathan Carman Case Revolves Around 25-Year-Old 'Mistress Y'

October 22, 2018

"Lawyers for Nathan Carman are offering an alternative theory in the murder of his 87-year-old grandfather, John Chakalos, that involves a 25-year-old woman who they say spent the weekend with Chakalos at a Connecticut casino just days before his death.

In court documents filed in Rhode Island, federal court attorney David Anderson seeks to interview a woman referred to as “Mistress Y” about the weekend she spent with Chakalos at Mohegan Sun, the $3,500 he gave her for breast enhancement surgery, and a 19-minute phone call she had with Chakalos on the night of the murder just as Nathan Carman was leaving his grandfather’s Windsor home....

The new documents allege that “Mistress Y” worked for a company that managed an apartment complex in Keene, N.H., owned by Chakalos. The documents claim that Chakalos routinely gave her as much as $800 every time they met.

The Courant has made several attempts to reach “Mistress Y” but she has been unavailable for comment.

Boston attorney Dan Small who is representing the three aunts released a statement Monday about the new court documents, calling them shameful...."

New Theory About Millionaire Grandfather's Death In Nathan Carman Case Revolves Around 25-Year-Old 'Mistress Y'
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  • #151
Talk of grandfather's mistress called a 'shameful attack' in Carman case

October 22. 2018

"...Carman, the main suspect in the murder of Keene native John Chakalos, raised the suspicion in paperwork that his lawyer filed in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island. The court is one of three courts that is holding civil proceedings related to Carman and Chakalos’ murder. It has also ordered Carman to produce a rifle he purchased in New Hampshire that could be involved in the murder.

“Nathan’s shameful attack on his grandfather today shows there is no depth to which he will not sink to avoid producing his gun, which is the probable murder weapon,” said Washington lawyer Dan Small, who represents the Chakalos heirs. In the filing, Carman asked a judge to grant him time to interview “Mistress Y” and quotes police reports that describe her as an “attractive 25-year-old” who lived in New Hampshire and met Chakalos through her job. ...

Carman asked the Rhode Island judge to also let him depose the lead plaintiff in the New Hampshire case, his aunt Valerie Santilli. Carman said she had a stronger motive to murder Chakalos.

Small said Carman is trying to cast blame on his own aunt, even though she willingly took and passed a police lie detector test. Carman has refused to take a lie detector test, Small said.

“Every day that passes in these legal proceedings shows even more clearly that Nathan’s behavior is calculated, evasive, and ultimately, guilty,” he said."

Talk of grandfather's mistress called a 'shameful attack' in Carman case | New Hampshire
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  • #152
Nathan Carman lawyer airs dirty laundry
Judge OKs deposition of ‘Mistress Y’

October 26, 2018

"Nathan Carman's lawyer has been give the green light by a federal judge to depose a Connecticut woman police reports indicate accepted $3,500 from his slain 87-year-old grandfather for breast augmentation surgery in exchange for her companionship.

The woman, who police said was in her mid-20s on Dec. 19, 2013, when millionaire John Chakalos was shot to death with a rifle in his Windsor, Conn., home, is referred to as “Mistress Y” in court documents filed by Carman's lawyer David F. Anderson in U.S. District Court of Rhode Island.

A copy of a Windsor Police Department report on a detective's interview with the woman included with Carman’s papers was redacted to protect her identity as a prospective witness....."

Nathan Carman lawyer airs dirty laundry
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  • #153
The Boston Globe
November 8 at 8:31 AM ·
Nathan Carman, suspected of killing his wealthy grandfather and mother in a scheme to collect an inheritance, wrote a “curious letter” to the person who rescued him after his boat sank in 2016.

Couldn't read the article without a subscription, so found this instead:

In Letters To Captain, Nathan Carman Laments Likely Loss Of Mother

"In two handwritten letters to the captain of the freighter that pulled him from the Atlantic Ocean, Nathan Carman wrote that he feared his mother is lost and there is no one in his life who will welcome him.

"If my mom is lost, which I fear is likely, I will have no one on Earth who will welcome me sincerely into their home," Nathan Carman wrote to Capt. Zhao Hengdong of the Orient Lucky.

"So I appreciate the efforts you and your crew have made to make your ship a home to me while I have been aboard," he wrote while the freighter traveled to Boston from the spot 100 miles south of Martha's Vineyard where Carman was found in a raft....
The second letter is a rambling, seven paragraphs that deals with Carman's thoughts about God. In one instance he compared God to being like "land when you are on a ship at sea, from your vantage you cannot see him yet not believing in him does not make him any less real."

He also appears to reference his loss and future.

"When the world takes everything from you, there are several ways in which you can respond," Carman wrote. "The best way is to use the experience as an opportunity to see and be grateful for what you do have and what you are given."..."

In Letters To Captain, Nathan Carman Laments Likely Loss Of Mother
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  • #154
Attorneys fight over police report in Carman case

November 26, 2018

"PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Attorneys in Nathan Carman's suit to collect insurance money for the Chicken Pox, his boat that sank Sept. 18, 2016, presumably with his mother on board, continue to spar over document production.

"To set the record straight, [Carman's attorney] is beating a dead horse," wrote David J. Farrell, of Farrell Smith O'Connell, who is representing the insurance companies that denied Carman's $85,000 claim for his boat. In denying his claims, the insurance companies contend that repairs Carman made to the boat before he and his mother left Rams Point Marina in Rhode Island caused the boat to sink.

"Defendant's meritless swipes at opposing counsel, and worse at the Court, on tangential issues are thinly veiled attempts to divert attention as the evidence comes crashing in on him ..." Farrell wrote in a fifth motion to compel Carman to turn over the Windsor, Conn., Police Department investigation file on the 2013 murder of John Chakalos, Carman's grandfather.

That report was filed under seal in New Hampshire Probate Court in a separate proceeding in which Carman's three aunts have filed a so-called slayer petition alleging that Carman killed his grandfather and was responsible for the death of his mother, Linda Carman.

Though Chakalos was murdered at his home in Windsor, his estate has been tied up in Probate Court because he also had a home in Chesterfield, N.H., where he spent a majority of his time. Carman's aunts want to prevent him from inheriting any portion of the estate, which is estimated to be above $30 million.

Farrell had originally applied to the Windsor Police Department for the 20,000-page report, but rescinded that request when the Probate Court issued an order allowing release of all documents in the estate case for use in the Rhode Island insurance case. Farrell noted he needs Carman and his attorney to produce those documents, which they have yet to do. Farrell has requested the same documents from attorneys representing Carman's aunts. Carman, a resident of Vernon, Vt., is representing himself in the N.H. Probate Court and David Anderson is representing him in the Rhode Island case.

In the motion to fight the request for the documents, Anderson wrote that most of the documents "are not relevant" to the Rhode Island case. Anderson also contended that though the court previously ruled the documents were relevant, the ruling was based upon "false and misleading information" provided by Farrell..."

Attorneys fight over police report in Carman case
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  • #155
Judge will decide if Nathan Carman violated order when sharing Windsor police investigation into grandfather's death

December 4,2018

"A New Hampshire judge will decide this week whether Nathan Carman violated a protective order when he made public Windsor police investigative records, which revealed Carman’s grandfather had spoken to a woman on the phone the night he was shot to death in 2013....

At the end of a nearly three-hour hearing Tuesday, Probate Court Judge David K. King ruled that any discovery documents in the case, including nearly 22,000 pages of Windsor police’s investigative records, would be sealed for now...

Carman and five other attorneys met with King behind closed doors to discuss medical and education records that opposing counsel originally made public.

Attorney William Satterly, representing Carman’s aunts, said Carman violated King’s January protective order when portions of the Windsor police investigative records were made public as part of a different legal case in Rhode Island — the effort by an insurance company to fight paying off Carman’s $85,000 policy on his boat.

Satterly said his law firm told Windsor police their investigative records would remain confidential under King’s protective order when the department provided roughly 22,000 pages of their investigation. Those records were also provided to Carman....

Chakalos’ acquaintance, known in court documents as ‘Mistress Y,’ is said to have been having an affair with John Chakalos and had spoken to Chakalos on the night he was killed. A Boston-based attorney representing the unnamed mistress attended Tuesday’s hearing and filed paperwork to intervene on the New Hampshire case, as well as a motion to seal those police records from public view."

Judge will decide if Nathan Carman violated order when sharing Windsor police investigation into grandfather's death
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  • #156
Lawyers for man issue subpoena for alleged mistress of slain grandfather (with clip)
Nathan Carman trying to link woman to his grandfather’s 2013 death

Dec 13, 2010

"MANCHESTER, N.H. —
Lawyers for a man whose relatives died under mysterious circumstances have issued a subpoena for an alleged mistress of his slain grandfather.

Nathan Carman’s lawyers have issued a subpoena to a woman identified only as "Mistress Y" and "Ms. Y" -- alleging she was in a sex-for-cash relationship with Carman's millionaire grandfather, John Chakalos, 87...."

Lawyers for man issue subpoena for alleged mistress of slain grandfather
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  • #157
New Hampshire judge in Nathan Carman case rebukes attorneys, accusing them of trying to take advantage of him

DEC 21, 2018

"In a stinging 37-page ruling Friday, a New Hampshire probate judge refused to sanction Nathan Carman for revealing confidential records and instead accused lawyers for his three aunts of trying to take advantage of the fact he is representing himself in a legal fight over Carman’s access to a $7 million inheritance.

Judge David K. King’s ruling followed a hearing last month where the lawyers -- Dan Small and William Satterly -- sought to have Carman sanctioned for revealing Windsor police department documents in a separate case in a Rhode Island federal court. King made it clear that he believes there is a pattern of the attorneys “attempting to take advantage'' of the fact that Carmen is representing himself in court....

In Friday’s ruling, King wrote that "there have been a number of pleadings filed by petitioner’s counsels that are without merit such that one may question whether counsels are attempting to take advantage of Mr. Carman’s pro se status and lack of legal training.''...

King said the attempt to file Carman’s medical records without a seal is just the latest in a series of “uncivilized, bordering on unethical conduct that has resulted in a tremendous waste of judicial resources as additional hearings have needed to be scheduled and additional orders issued.”

To show his displeasure with the lawyers, King refused to grant attorney Ralph T. Lepore III status in the case. Carmen’s aunts had sought to add Lepore to their legal team.

Small had asked that Lepore be granted status in New Hampshire in order to assist with the trial that is still slated to begin on Jan. 22. It is normally a routine request that judge’s quickly grant but King denied Lepore’s application and made it clear he was close to revoking Small’s as well...."

New Hampshire judge in Nathan Carman case rebukes attorneys, accusing them of trying to take advantage of him - Hartford Courant
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  • #158
Whose fault is it that Nathan is representing himself?

Ugh
 
  • #159
New Hampshire judge postpones start of Nathan Carman trial after his aunts replace their attorney

JAN 11, 2019

"In the latest twist in the saga of a former Connecticut man at the center of two death investigations, a New Hampshire probate court trial was delayed Friday after three sisters accusing nephew Nathan Carman of murdering their father and sister replaced their Boston attorneys and asked the judge for a postponement.

Friday’s development precedes what is expected to be yet another twist next week, when a West Hartford probate judge is set to authorize that $150,000 be allocated to Carman so that he can hire an attorney in the New Hampshire case....

...On Friday, at what was supposed to be a pre-trial hearing in New Hampshire, Carman told King that he didn’t want to postpone the start of the trial and would rather represent himself than delay the case “that has taken up the last five years of my life.”

“If I have to go to trial naked so to speak than I’d rather do it myself than hire someone who can just talk fancy,” Carman told King. "I don’t care anymore. My reputation is shot and it is never going to be recovered.'

But King admonished Carman, telling him that he needs an attorney and that he was going to grant the postponement to be fair to his aunts.

“My strong inclination is to postpone the start of the trial and quite frankly you have the most to gain by that Mr. Carman. You need a lawyer in this case and now that you are able to get one I would strongly recommend that you do so,” King said...

Carman also is fighting with the insurance company in federal court in Rhode Island over his $85,000 claim for his boat, the Chicken Pox, which he was piloting when it sank in 2016 with his mother on board...."

New Hampshire judge postpones start of Nathan Carman trial after his aunts replace their attorney - Hartford Courant
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  • #160
Probate judge rules Nathan Carman can have money to hire attorney, pay more than $30,000 in credit card bills

JAN 24, 2019

"A West Hartford probate judge has approved allotting Nathan Carman at least $125,000 from a trust fund established by his slain grandfather to hire an attorney to represent him in a legal fight with his aunts.

Owen Eagan also agreed Carman can use the trust to pay off more than $30,000 in credit card debt....

Killian also ordered that Carman be given a $1,000 monthly stipend starting Feb. 1. He also made it clear that there’d be no more money awarded and he found that Santilli had done nothing wrong while administering the trust fund.

"I would be disinclined to reimburse any additional credit card debts or increase the stipend without a significant change in circumstances,” Killian wrote, adding only if the New Hampshire case runs “amok” would he consider appropriating more money.

King hasn’t set a date for when the trial will begin...."

Probate judge rules Nathan Carman can have money to hire attorney, pay more than $30,000 in credit card bills - Hartford Courant
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