It is still not certain who will represent Hugo Selenski in the Kerkowski/Fassett case. A preliminary hearing on the current charges is scheduled for this week. Guess it won't happen if Hugo doesn't have an attorney by then. Apparently Demetrius Fannick wants to be privately paid versus the piddly salary the county would pay him. Now that he is well known locally and nationally, he sure isn't hurting for legal work. Maybe he thinks Hugo is guilty in this case and doesn't want to take the chance of marring his reputation at this point. Atty. Fannick is an excellent defense attorney and a mighty good looking one!
This second case will probably have the same outcome no matter who represents Hugo. Guess we will find out this week whether or not Fannick will take tha case or move on.
Any Hugo admirers out there willing to contribute to the Hugo Selenski defense fund to keep Atty. Fannick as Hugo's attorney????? Hugo would be eternally grateful to you I'm sure!
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thats gunna take foreva to come up with that type of Money...
No one could really tell who pulled the trigger and that is why he was acquitted of the crime.
Obviously bodies found in your yard is gonna bring out red flags and point to more probable guilt than innocense.
Was he set up? I dont know.
Was he involved somehow? I dont know.
I think things may be totally different with the new trial. I think there are more credible witnesses involved.
But regaurdless, Attorney Fannick and the rest of the Defense Team did their job.
I find fault in the DA office in this case. First and foremost, did they totally charge Hugo correctly?? If they had somehow worded the charge as an accomplice, Hugo would not have gone free. Weighing the evidence, I cant figure out why they didnt think this through better.
Secondly, not filing the paper for the escape?? Totally unexcusable. If the escape evidence had been able to be brought into the trial, who knows what else could have been determined. Why escape if you are innocent???
Thirdly, did the DA actually think that normal everyday people would decide to end a man's life on circumstantial evidence or evidence from plea bargaining, drug dealing witnesses with no character and proof that they lie??
And the icing on the cake.....two expert witnesses for the prosecution with conflicting testimony!!! Law 101 could have avoided this situation.
I feel for the families of the victims. The victims put themselves in harms way by their drug habits, however, the families are the ones that are suffering.
I hope the next case is handled better so the person/persons responsible can come to justice.
Also, feel free to have sympathy on the victim’s families for their losses. However, you should have SEEN how these victims/familiy members treated the members of Hugo's family. They blurted out threats at them (and I mean threats on their lives), they pushed them in the lines at the court room doors, and they were nothing but trashy people with very misplaced anger to take it out on Hugo's family! Do any of you even realize what the state did for them? The state paid for them to stay at a hotel the duration of the trial, paid for ALL of their meals, and treated them like gold (even though they were actually just as scared of these urban drug dealers as everyone else was). Originally the state agreed to pay for the two mothers and the one brother, then the girlfriends showed up with children, and the grandmother showed up, and other family members just kept coming out of the woodworks - and the state didn't want to rock the boat and put their foot down, so they just kept paying for everything! Yes, they are entitled to be at the trial just like any one else was, but it should have been at their own expense. Hugo had many family members at his trial that sat through long grueling days with nothing paid for them. I just think everyone needs to look at both sides of this. If the state had such a strong case, then why did they feel they had to pick up that HUGE tab? Yes, this case was very costly to the state, but most of the expenses were unnecessarily created by the state themselves!
I think you guys need to read a lot more.