Defense seeks reduction in Sharpe bond
YOUNGSTOWN — The lawyer for David Sharpe, the suspect in the 2001 bathtub drowning and dismemberment of 15-year-old James P. Higham, said he will move to reduce his client’s bond from the present $500,000 to somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000.
After Sharpe’s Wednesday arraignment, Atty. Lou DeFabio said he’ll make the request at a pre-trial hearing for Sharpe before the judge who will actually try his case. The high bond was set by Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, DeFabio said.
“This case is six years old,” DeFabio said. “The authorities have always known where he is ... David has never gone anywhere. He remained here. He would have turned himself in, as the state fully knew,” he said.
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