Accused serial rapist of Charlestown and the North End Matthew Nilo appeared in courtroom on Halloween day for attorneys to try to settle some background points.
Nilo, 35, a New York City company legal professional who lives in New Jersey, was arrested on the finish of May and charged with a collection of rapes within the Terminal Street space of Charlestown in 2007 and 2008. He was charged a month later with one other collection of rapes over an 18-month interval between January 2007 and July 2008. He pleaded not responsible to every cost and has been out on a mixed bail of $550,000.
On Tuesday, prosecutor Lynn Feigenbaum and protection attorneys Rosemary Scapicchio and Joseph Cataldo met briefly in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston earlier than Clerk Magistrate Edward Curley to argue over the prosecution’s proposals for a buccal swab from Nilo and to redact courtroom paperwork offered for him.
“The Commonwealth is only seeking that the names and identifying information — names, addresses — will not be provided in writing to the defendant at this time,” ADA Lynn Feigenbaum mentioned of the movement that had not but been filed with the courtroom however had been shared with the protection, including that the prosecution would offer the defendant with redacted types of the paperwork. “I don’t think that that’s an unreasonable request.”
Scapicchio made certain that redacting the names and addresses was the one factor the prosecution needed to redact from her shopper’s copy of courtroom paperwork and that she would wish to see that in writing. She added, “I never want my clients to have contact information. I don’t think it’s a good policy.”
Scapicchio requested that Feigenbaum’s movement for a buccal swab — which is a cheek swab for genetic testing — be filed nicely forward of the subsequent date in order that she may file her personal response to oppose it.
Curley mentioned that the prosecution’s movement must be filed by the tip of the day on Nov. 30 and set the subsequent motions listening to for Dec. 21, 2 p.m. The presumptive trial date is June 25, 2024.
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