copyright the Chronicle March 16, 2016
by Joseph Gresser
NEWPORT – A breach between an accused murderer and his lawyer was apparently healed by a talk from Judge Robert Bent.
Jeffrey M. Ray, 52, of Brownington sent a handwritten note to the clerk in the Criminal Division of Orleans Superior Court on February 26 to say he and St. Johnsbury attorney David Sleigh met that day and had “a breakdown with our communication.”
He asked that he be allowed to find a new lawyer.
On May 26, 2015, Mr. Ray pled innocent to first degree murder in the shooting death of Rick Vreeland, 53, also of Brownington, and his former wife’s husband. Judge Timothy Tomasi ordered Mr. Ray held without bail.
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