Lauren Pazienza — the Lengthy Island girl who allegedly shoved a beloved 87-year-old voice coach to her demise on a Manhattan road — is about to go on trial for manslaughter in October, a decide dominated Tuesday.
Manhattan Supreme Court docket Justice Felicia Mennin set the Oct. 6, 2022, date for the proceedings after chiding Pazienza’s high-profile protection lawyer for apparently dragging his toes within the case and delaying it from going to trial.
“I gave you virtually a month” to file movement papers, Mennin instructed lawyer Arthur Aidala throughout Tuesday’s courtroom listening to.
Aidala protested: “I’m not able to decide to a trial date. There’s 1000's of hours of discovery we nonetheless haven’t gone by.”
“I’m going to present you a trial date and you'll clarify to me at the moment why you’re prepared or not prepared,” the decide replied.
Pazienza, who's being held on Rikers Island because the case performs out in courtroom, wore a white long-sleeve T-shirt, beige pants and blue face masks for the temporary listening to, and gave her mother and father a solemn nod when it was over.
Her mother, Caroline, was captured on video hitting a Publish photographer on the arm along with her cellphone as she left courtroom.
Pazienza, a former occasion organizer and scion of a Lengthy Island cesspool empire, is accused of calling sufferer Barbara Maier Gustern a “b–ch” earlier than shoving her to the bottom in an unprovoked assault in Chelsea on March 10.
Gustern — a vocal coach for the likes of Blondie frontwoman and Massive Apple icon Debbie Harry — died from her accidents 5 days later.
Pazienza has twice turned down plea offers supplied by the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace for the manslaughter and assault fees she faces.
She could possibly be sentenced to as much as 25 years behind bars if convicted on the highest cost of manslaughter.
Pazienza was initially launched on $500,000 bail following her arrest, however was thrown again behind bars Could 10 after Mennin revoked the bail and labeled her a “critical flight threat.”
Pazienza allegedly flew off the deal with after she had been out ingesting to have fun her upcoming wedding ceremony. The redhead allegedly threw meals at her fiancé earlier than crossing the road, the place she pushed Gustern.
Aidala didn’t remark as they left courtroom.
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